Susan Sontag's most recent novel, In America, won the National Book Award in 2000. She has written novels, stories, plays, and essays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.
Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including
The Benefactor,
Death Kit,
The Volcano Lover, and
In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories,
I, etcetera; several plays, including
Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them
On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.
