Not that Plath thought so. The astute Ms. Ruden does not take Plath at her word; that is, if you read Plath’s journals from around the Yaddo period, you might suppose this is a poet struggling to find ...

Olivia Plath has a message for trolls who are criticizing her decision to speak out about her childhood. “It’s so interesting to me that every time I talk about my childhood publicly and it ...

After Welcome to Plathville star Micah Plath uploaded a new photo with his girlfriend, Veronica, some fans were convinced that the pair secretly tied the knot. “Side by side always 懶@veronica ...

Writer and archivist Peter K. Steinberg has spent 30 years compiling, editing and archiving materials on the life and work of Sylvia Plath, who would have turned 92 today.

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.

Sylvia Plath lived all of 30 years. But one of the most significant moments — for her life and, as it turned out, for literature — spanned a mere month, June 1953, when she was 20. But Winder ...

Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' is a semi-autobiographical novel that offers a poignant portrayal of mental illness and the pressures faced by women in the 1950s. The novel follows Esther Greenwood, a ...

That may seem an astonishing statement to those tired of Plath biographies and say, as Emily Van Duyne knows quite well, “No more Plath.” Reviewers hailed Heather Clark’s “Recent Red Comet: The Short ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more ...

For years, users on Facebook, X, Instagram, and other social media sites have claimed that U.S. poet and novelist Sylvia Plath once said, "Opinions are like orgasms … mine matters most and I ...

When Plath died, she left behind a manuscript named Ariel, which was later published as a book of poetry by Hughes, possibly nodding to the album’s final track, “The Manuscript.” She also ...