sylvia plath a biography linda wagner martin

The author has written 25 books, mostly works of criticism on American writers, including two collections of criticism on the work of Sylvia Plath. The first biography of Sylvia Plath to draw on unpublished journals an. Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and her novel, The Bell Jar still sells around 100,000 copies a year. Condition: See description ISBN 10: 0701131268 ISBN 13: 9780701131265. Read 80 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. The author traces her growth as a writer and she also tells the story of Sylvia Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes (Poet Laureate) and its painful collapse, her struggle to be wife, mother and writer - and provides new information about her last days. The work provides a crucial reappraisal of her life as a writer and as a woman, shedding new light on her important relationship with her mother, her academic career, her famous summer at Mademoiselle magazine, and on her first harrowing suicide attempt at the age of 20. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plaths life. The book is illustrated with previously unknown photographs of her childhood, marriage and literary friends. The author draws on unpublished journals and letters only recently made available, as well as 200 interviews with people who knew her. However, in her biography Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. This is a revealing new biography of the writer, Sylvia Plath, published in the 25th year following her death. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Sylvia plath a biography linda wagner martin