Gwyneth Paltrow worked on Sylvia, a biopic about writer Sylvia Plath, two weeks after the death of her father, Bruce Paltrow Her grief helped her tap into the character, the star said, but the role ...

Even if you have read every biography of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath, this revisionist account of all three will startle you. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, author of the excellent ...

Sylvia Plath always had an inkling that her fame would grow, not diminish, with time. "I am only thirty/And like the cat I have nine times to die," she wrote at the end of October 1962, less than four ...

This is Anthony Byrnes Opening the Curtain on LA Theatre for KCRW. On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath turned her gas oven on and opened the door. She carefully placed wet rags under the door to the ...

This haunting nameless pain -- My thoughts to shining fame aspire -- The ghost of somebody else -- If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad -- Who is Sylvia? -- I myself am Heaven and Hell -- Drowning ...

The poet Sylvia Plath was unable to turn creation into self-creation, the construction of new and valuable aspects of personality and emotion. Although much of her poetry is full of vibrant and ...