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Sylvia Plath: A Biography

by Linda Wagner-Martin · 1987

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The first biography of Sylvia Plath to draw on unpublished journals and letters, Sylvia Plath provides a detailed, objective, and illuminating portrait of this talented and tortured woman who is widely recognized as one of America's foremost poets of the 20th century. 20 pages of photos.

Subject
biographymemoir
Themes
writersmental healthwomenfeminism
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages
Form
poetry

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