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Reborn

Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Reborn( )
Author: Sontag, Susan
Editor: Rieff, David
ISBN:978-0-312-42850-1
Publication Date:Oct 2009
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.00
Book Description:

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Reborn ends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
History / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.65 x 8.51 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.902 Pounds
Author Biography
Sontag, Susan (Author)
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71.

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