The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Softcover

McCullough, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345351681 ISBN 13: 9780345351685

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1987

Synopsis

Beginning with her freshman year at Smith, these journals reveal Sylvia Plath's unrelenting ambition to be a great writer, her recurrent struggles with her inner conflicts, and her feelings about herself and those closest to her

About this title

About the Author

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. She began publishing poems and stories at a young age and by the time she entered Smith College had won several poetry prizes. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge, England, and married British poet Ted Hughes in London in 1956. The young couple moved to the States, where Plath became an instructor at Smith College. Later, they moved back to England, where Plath continued writing poetry and wrote her novel, The Bell Jar, which was first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in England in 1963. On February 11, 1963, Plath committed suicide. Her Collected Poems, published posthumously in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize."

From the Inside Flap

or contemporary American writer has inspired such intense curiosity about her life as Sylvia Plath. Now the intimate and eloquent personal diaries of the twentieth century's most important female poet reveal for the first time the true story behind "The Bell Jar" and her tragic suicide at thirty. They paint, as well, a revealing portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose stature has seldom been equalled.
"A revelation." The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0345351681
• ISBN 13: 9780345351685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 10