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.
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.
