Sylvia Plath : A Literary Life

Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plaths reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plaths work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plaths 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 Hughess Birthday Letters . A chronology maps out key events and publications both in Plaths lifetime and posthumously.