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The Rosenbach Museum & Library Presents
An Evening with Susan Sontag, Winner of the National Book Award

What: An Evening with Susan Sontag, a free public program in conjunction with Sitting Pretty: Photographs from the Marianne Moore Collection, on view at the Rosenbach through February 11, 2001

When: Thursday, December 7, 2000, 6 p.m.

Where: Friends Select School, 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Details: Susan Sontag is an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Her most influential works include The Style of Radical Will (1969), Illness as Metaphor (1977), On Photography (1977), for which she received the National Book Critic’s Award from Criticism that year, Aids And Its Metaphors (1988), and The Volcano Lover (1992). In America (2000) has just won the National Book Award, and her play Alice in Bed (1993) is currently running at the New York Theater Workshop in New York City.

This program is supported by the Humanities-and-the-Arts initiative, administered by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and funded principally by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.