plath, sylvia

On February 25, 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately saw Ted Hughes, who would go on to marry her and obscure her life and work. But long before she met Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath already had lived a troubled, complex, creative, and disturbing life. This is the first book to focus on the early life of Sylvia Plath.

"A biography of writer Sylvia Plath that describes her era, her major works--the novel The Bell Jar and her poetry--her life, and the legacy of her writing"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an close analysis of twentieth-century poet Sylvia Plath that disputes the poet's image as being obsessed with death and argues that her body of work represents a mythic biography that incorporates rebirth and transformation.

A collection of illustrated letters, schoolbook sketches, teenage diaries, portraits, paintings, and photographs from Sylvia Plath's childhood and teenage years.

Jillian Becker chronicles the brief time she spent with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life.

Chronicles the life of poet Sylvia Plath, drawing from interviews with her mother and extensive archival research to discuss Plath's mental health, her father's early death, her battles with depression, and her volatile marriage to poet Ted Hughes.