Susan Sontag

Biography

American writer and critic, one of the most influential public intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Her essays and criticism ranged across avant-garde literature, theatre, film and photography; On Photography (1977) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and In America won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction. She also received the Jerusalem Prize (2001) and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2003).