A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born.

The influential American writer and literary critic's diaries from her early thirties present her powers as a culturally important intellect gathering. Candid about sexuality in a less enlightened time. Includes a preface from Sontag's son David Rieff.