The six Sylvia Plath poems in focus here are “Mushrooms,” “You’re,” “The Babysitters,” “The Applicant,” “Ariel,” and “Edge.” Sarah Ruden deftly distributes discussions of the poems into a succinct and ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...

Fifty years ago Monday, Sylvia Plath, a 30-year-old American living in England, put her head in her oven and committed suicide. Remembering Sylvia Plath - Los Angeles Times ...

Like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number One. So begins the web series Sylvia Plath, Girl Detective in an homage to Plath’s famous poem Lady Lazarus. While the real-life Sylvia ...

It was on February 11, 1963, that 30-year-old Sylvia Plath, having first sealed up her young children’s bedroom with tape and towels, went into the kitchen of her London flat and gassed herself.

Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she's been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the 'real' Plath, asks Lillian Crawford.

Sylvia Plath lived only to the age of 30—this year marks the 60th anniversary of her death. When you consider all that has been written about her, and the writers still thinking of her, the ...

JULY 9, 1962: Sylvia Plath raced to catch the phone call before Ted Hughes could intercept it.She recognized the woman asking for him, even though Assia Wevill lowered her voice, pretending ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave ...