By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plath's life. By this, she humanizes Plath and brings her from the status of myth and legend to the normality of a talented woman who guides her life by her continuous attempts to achieve her literary aims.

Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Literature & Fiction

Linda Wagner-Martin

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plath's life. By this, she humanizes Plath and brings her from the status of myth and legend to the normality of a talented woman who guides her life by her continuous attempts to achieve her literary aims.

SYLVIA PLATH. A LITERARY LIFE.

In this outstanding and controversial biography, written despite the wishes of Ted Hughes, Linda Wagner-Martin traces Plath's childhood in Massachusetts, her brilliant academic career, her aggressive ambition to excel both socially and in her writing and the deep anxiety that plagued her all her life and led to her first suicide attempt at the age of twenty. Linda Wagner-Martin draws on unpublished letters and journals and over two hundred interviews to explore every aspect of Sylvia Plath's life and brings new understanding to her development as a writer.

Sylvia Plath

Biographies & Memoirs

Cardinal/Sphere Boooks

Book by Linda Welsheimer Wagner, Linda Wagner-Martin

The Prose of William Carlos Williams

Linda Welsheimer Wagner

Wesleyan Univ Pr

A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present

Wiley/Blackwell

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.

Arts & Literature

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