<DIV><P><B><I>"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."<BR><BR><BR></I></B>The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, <I>Reborn</I> (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, <I>Reborn</I> ends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.<BR><BR></P></DIV>