The brief life and meteoric career of Sylvia Plath have been the
subject of fascination since her suicide in 1963 at age thirty.
This concise, well-researched biography recounts the facts of her
troubled life based on the latest updated research. Biographer
Connie Ann Kirk has consulted the Plath archives at Smith College
and the University of Indiana--Bloomington, as well as Plath's
unabridged journals published in 2000. She has also interviewed a
Plath contemporary who knew her.
What emerges is a balanced portrait that takes a neutral stance
between the divided factions in the blame game surrounding her
suicide. Kirk describes the outrage directed against Plath's
estranged husband, Ted Hughes. Many accused him, not only of
causing her death because of his philandering, but also of
heavy-handed editing of her posthumous work. But Kirk notes that
others have attributed her tragic end mainly to deep-seated
psychological factors over which she and those close to her had
little control: her lifelong battle with depression; her difficult
relationship with her parents, especially her father; and the
pressures of balancing a literary career with the roles of wife and
mother.
This excellent, very readable biography includes photographs, a
timeline, a family tree, a list of books in Sylvia Plath's personal
library, and a bibliography of works by and about her.
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