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Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
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Include books by the same authorVirginia Woolf: A Biography
Quentin Bell · 314 pages
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Diane Wood Middlebrook · 488 pages
Explores the relationship between the emotional disturbances of poet Anne Sexton and her works.
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
Linda Wagner-Martin · 282 pages
This new edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's study of Sylvia Plath's literary career includes a chapter discussing posthumous publications, recent biographies, the death of Ted Hughes and the publication of his 'Birthday Letters', as well as an updated bibliography and chronology.
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Julia Briggs · 527 pages
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max · 356 pages
"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace's tormented, anguished and often triumphant battle to succee
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Elizabeth Winder · 265 pages
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath's words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work which, ultimat
Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014
Emily Herbert · 244 pages
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell · 400 pages
Dickens
Peter Ackroyd · 904 pages
The acclaimed chronicler of London, Peter Ackroyd, has already written three books on Dickens. This volume explores the life and times of the great author.
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin · 624 pages
"Still known to millions only as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from the American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author behind such classics as The Haunting of Hill Hous
Rimbaud: A Biography
Graham Robb · 551 pages
"The poet's life was stranger than any fiction: explorer, mercenary, gun runner, and companion to slave traders. Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, a reinventor of language and perception, a breaker o
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
Robert Polito · 543 pages
Jim Thompson wrote some of the darkest, boldest, and most celebrated modern crime novels, including The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me. In Savage Art, Robert Polito provides the first comprehensive biography of this brilliant American original. Combining exhaustive research with novelistic fluency, Polito reproduces the vital textures of Thompson's world and provides the first thorough chronic
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
Judy Oppenheimer · 304 pages
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson · 872 pages
Damned to Fame follows the reclusive literary giant's life from his birth in Foxrock, a rural suburb of Dublin, in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989. Knowlson brilliantly re-creates Beckett's early years as a struggling author in Paris, his travels through Germany in 1936-37 as the Nazis were consolidating their power, his service in the French Resistance during World War II, and the years of li
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman · 355 pages
This incredible story about brotherly love and the famous artist who was shaped by it is a meticulously researched account of the Van Gogh brothers' intertwined lives.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell · 448 pages
Intertwining fact and story, The Life of Charlotte Bronte takes the reader by one hand and Charlotte Bronte by the other to run rampant through the making of one of the greatest authoresses of all time. Follow Charlotte from her birthplace of Thornton as she sets off for school and later returns to teach her sisters, and come to know the “characteristic kindness of the Brontes.” This unsentimental
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Alan Jacobs · 355 pages
The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Over the past half century, children everywhere have escaped into this world and delighted in its wonders and enchantments. Yet what we do know of the man who created Narnia? This bio
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Benjamin Moser · 479 pages
Updike
Adam Begley · 575 pages
"Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himsel