From 1960-1964 she was an instructor in the religion department of Columbia University and after that was writer-in-residence for one year at Rutgers. In 1965 she received a Rockefeller Fellowship. In 1966 she received the George Polk Memorial Award "for contribution toward better appreciation of theatre, motion pictures, and literature," and was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Another Rockefeller Fellowship followed in 1974, and a second Guggenheim in 1975. In 1976 she was the recipient of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Literature in the field of American Letters, the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, and the Arts and Letters Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
On Photography received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for the Best Work of Criticism in 1977.
Susan Sontag's career has been marked by a seriousness of pursuit and a relentless intelligence that analyzes modern culture on almost every possible level: artistic, philosophical, literary, political, and moral. Although she began writing essays, stories, poems, and plays at about the age of eight, not until she was twenty-eight did she begin her career as a writer in earnest, with the publication of The Benefactor .
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