

This prize, awarded biannually at the Jerusalem International Book Fair, is second only to the Nobel Prize for literary prestige. One of America's best known and most influential writers, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2001 for the body of her work. Novels, a play, and four full-length films.

Sontag's oeuvre includes seven major works of nonfiction, four

This extensive archive includes manuscripts of her writings correspondence with contemporary writers, artists, musicians, and other intellectual and historical figures her personal notebooks and her private library, consisting of more than 20,000 books in all areas of literature, the arts, history and the social sciences. In 2002 the UCLA Library acquired the papers of Susan Sontag, a unique record of her distinguished career in American letters. Susan Sontag Papers - View Online Finding Aid UCLA Library Special Collections: Exhibits
