Synopses & Reviews
This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide in made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation.
Review
"Butscher explodes, once and for all the romantic myth of Sylvia Plath as extremist poet who died for the sake of art . . . the very opposite seems to be true." —Jonathan Yarley, Washington Post Book World
About the Author
Edward Butscher is the biographer of Adelaide Crapsey, Conrad Aiken, and
Peter Wild; author of poetry collections
Child in the House and
Poems about Silence; and the editor of
Silvia Plath the Woman and the Work. He lives in East Hampton, New York.