num_pages: 192
description: Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death, including the publication of her Collected Poems--edited by Ted Hughes--which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's Birthday Letters. A chronology maps out key events and publications both in Plath's lifetime and posthumously.
language: English
title: Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life
titlecomplete: Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
genres: American, Female Authors, Biography, Womens, Poetry, Classics, Feminism, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1435
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan