Title: Bitter fame
First published: 1989
Description: In a book that The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm called "by far the most intelligent and the only aesthetically satisfying" Plath biography, the poet Anne Stevenson narrates and illuminates the ways in which Sylvia Plath created her own legend in life and in poetry, one at odds with the posthumous myth that has grown up around her since her suicide in 1963.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Poets, American, Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963, American Women poets
People: Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Time periods: 20th century