The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Novelist and activist                          

Selected Works:

Fiction:

The Benefactor - 1963
Death Kit - 1967
I, etcetera - -Collection of short stories - 1977
The Way We Live Now - short story - 1991
The Volcano Lover - 1992
In America - 1999 - National Book Award for fiction in 2000

Plays:

A Parsifal - 1991 - one-act play, first published in Antaeus 67
Alice in Bed - 1993
Lady from the Sea - adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name; first published in Theater 29 - 1999

Nonfiction:

Collections of essays:

Against Interpretation - 1966 - includes Notes on "Camp"
Styles of Radical Will - 1969
Under the Sign of Saturn - 1980 
Where the Stress Falls -2001
At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches - 2007 - edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, with a foreword by David Rieff

Susan Sontag also published nonfiction essays in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Granta, Partisan Review and the London Review of Books.

Monographs:

On Photography - 1977
Illness as Metaphor - 1978
AIDS and Its Metaphors - a continuation of Illness as Metaphor - 1988
Regarding the Pain of Others - 2003

Films:

Duett för kannibaler - Duet for Cannibals - 1969
Bröder Carl - Brother Carl - 1971
Promised Lands - 1974
Unguided Tour AKA Letter from Venice - 1983

Other:

Contribution of phrases to Fischerspooner's third album "Odyssey." - 2004
Liner notes for Patti Smith album Land - 2002
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1964 - 2008.                          

National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography - 1978
MacArthur Fellowship - 1990
Malaparte Prize, Italy - 1992

Recognized for her major contributions to the AIDS field when referenced in a toast during "La Vie Boheme" from the Broadway musical Rent - To Sontag, To Sondheim, To anything taboo... - 1996
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France - 1999
National Book Award for In America - 2000
Awarded the Jerusalem Prize, which is awarded every two years to a writer whose work explores the freedom of the individual in society - 2001

Received her second George Polk Award, for Cultural Criticism for "Looking at War," in The New Yorker - 2002

Received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade - Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels -  during the Frankfurt Book Fair  - Frankfurter Buchmesse - 2003

Won the Prince of Asturias Award on Literature - 2003

Two days after her death, the mayor of Sarajevo announced the city would name a street after her, calling her an "author and a humanist who actively participated in the creation of the history of Sarajevo and Bosnia." It took 5 years for that to become official. Nationalist political parties ignored that promise. On March 30th 2009, it was officially announced that Theater Square in front of National Theater in Sarajevo will get the name of Susan Sontag - 2004