Her golden necklace looks more like feathers than metal ... which often focus on simple and brutish descriptions of objects. It also reminds me of Sylvia Plath’s “pink things” from her poem “Fever ...

On screen and off, Ms. Miles was dressed only in “black, gray, or white,” with only pearls as jewelry. A famous costume designer ... of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.

Sylvia Plath lived all of 30 years. But one of the most significant moments — for her life and, as it turned out, for literature — spanned a mere month, June 1953, when she was 20. But Winder ...

Writer and archivist Peter K. Steinberg has spent 30 years compiling, editing and archiving materials on the life and work of Sylvia Plath, who would have turned 92 today. Often seen in light of ...

The reason why there are so many books about Sylvia Plath (not just biographies) is that she is multitudinous. So often misidentified as a confessional poet, she actually lived and wrote in the ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave ...

The latest rereading of Sylvia Plath’s tragic life is a biographical take in which the author suggests a rare communion with her subject (Bettmann Archive/Getty) And in this latest book on ...

“Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning of coming to terms with the poet’s biography. That may seem an astonishing ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death.

Imagine a woman in her twenties with brown hair who sits alone in a coffee shop while wearing eccentric jewelry ... and chuckling in a silly way,” Sylvia Plath writes in “The Bell Jar ...