About Author
Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, "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 five works of nonfiction, among them "Against Interpretation "and "On Photography," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2003.<BR>