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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
Description: Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also been fueled in part by the tragic nature of her death. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath have appeared over the last fifty-five years that mainly focus on her death or contain projections of an array of points of view about the writer.
Until now, little sustained attention has been paid...