Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ...

Did Sylvia Plath predict it all? That’s what we’d like to think. In her work, we’re always looking for prophecies about her life – and when I say her life, I mostly mean her death.

‘Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation’ By Emily Van Duyne W.W. Norton, 320 pages “Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning ...

In Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar,' she compares the protagonist's life to a green fig tree. The “fig tree analogy”, as it is ...

I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath. I was just about to graduate school and begin my life. My mind was overflowing with ideas, countries, and careers I wanted to pursue.

Plath has been given the Hollywood treatment (the flawed 2003 biopic Sylvia), inspired more than one stage play and inspired songs by an array of artists, including Ryan Adams and Lana Del Rey.

CARL ROLLYSON Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street ...

Poet Ted Hughes met Sylvia Plath 1956. "They were both geniuses, says biographer Jonathan Bate. Hughes is shown above on the first day of trout fishing season in April 1986.

Details of a miscarriage emerge From Feb. 18, 1960, to Feb. 4, 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to psychologist Ruth Beuscher.

COMMENTARY Sylvia Plath’s botanical interests offer a fresh perspective on the poet’s life and work in a Smith College exhibit ‘The Bell Jars’’ immersive approach stirs up questions ...

Plath is often reduced to a punchline or mythologized as a “high priestess of poetry.” A new biography paints a more generous – and human – portrait.