In Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar,' she compares the protagonist's life to a green fig tree. The “fig tree analogy”, as it is ...

The two-time Emmy nominee also penned ‘Stone Pillow,’ starring Lucille Ball, and plays about Sylvia Plath, Sophie Tucker and ...

Otto Plath was a biology professor at Boston University, and his death in 1940 profoundly influenced Sylvia’s later works. “Somehow Otto was the crucial figure at the heart of her black ...

Details of a miscarriage emerge From Feb. 18, 1960, to Feb. 4, 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to psychologist Ruth Beuscher.

Sylvia Plath has inspired not only poets and poetry lovers, but also biographers keen to analyze her life and work. Many books on Plath have been published since her 1963 suicide.

There were hints that I might be Sylvia Plath reincarnated as early as high school, but confirmation didn’t arrive until the summer of 1996, shortly before my 21st birthday. As a 16-year-old, I ...

Plath has been given the Hollywood treatment (the flawed 2003 biopic “Sylvia”), inspired more than one stage play and prompted songs by an array of artists, including Ryan Adams and Lana Del Rey.

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and ...

A 21-year-old Sylvia Plath poses on the beach for a photo featured in the “One Life: Sylvia Plath” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. “She was one of those people who performed her ...

Sylvia Plath also sent letters to Ted Hughes’ parents detailing their experiences together. Sothebys. The couple’s relationship broke down in 1963, just before Plath’s suicide.