Table of Contents

Preface Timeline Who Was Sylvia? Beyond the Icon Early Life and Family (Pre-1932-1936) The Golden Schoolgirl (1937-1955) The Academic Life (1950-1955) A Poet's Life and a Poet's Wife (1956-1961) The Bell Jar Cracks (1962-1963) After Plath: Mysteries and Controversies Appendix A: Family Tree Appendix B: Sylvia Plath's Library Bibliography Index

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Examines the short but intense life of American poet Sylvia Plath, going beyond the drama surrounding her suicide to explore the complex person behind the icon.

About the Author

Connie Ann Kirk is a writer and scholar who specializes in children's literature, American literature, and Emily Dickinson. She is a Mark Twain Quarry Farm Research Fellow and an Ezra Jack Keats/de Grummond Collection Children's Literature Research Fellow.

Reviews

?Greenwood's literary biographies are recommended picks for anyone studying a significant author's works, and Connie Ann Kirk's Sylvia Plath is a vivid, complex coverage presenting the facts of her life as they are currently known.?-Internet Bookwatch

"Greenwood's literary biographies are recommended picks for anyone studying a significant author's works, and Connie Ann Kirk's Sylvia Plath is a vivid, complex coverage presenting the facts of her life as they are currently known."-Internet Bookwatch