Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who won an Oscar with “Joker,” is already deep into "The Bell Jar." Sarah Polley's Sylvia Plath ...

Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ambition, ...

There are two free-standing objects in "One Life: Sylvia Plath," the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery about the poet and novelist whose influence has burgeoned since her 1963 death. One is ...

Sylvia Plath is regarded as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the 20th century. But as a teen, she didn’t even want to be a writer. Plath enrolled at Smith College with the intention of ...

The Yorkshire poet had a ‘magic touch’, Liz Hicklin recalls, felt by many women: ‘It was like I was blossoming’ ...

A first-time playwright at 95, Liz Hicklin has turned a youthful romance with one of poetry's giants into a gameshow – ...

What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath's private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath ...

Sylvia Plath may have died at the age of 30, but in her short life she produced an enormous body of writing. She wrote a radio play, a children's book, dozens of short stories and numerous incidental ...

Photo courtesy of mike krzeszak on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons 2.0. I was born in 1963. It was the last year of the Baby Boomers. It was the year MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech and ...

There were hints that I might be Sylvia Plath reincarnated as early as high school, but confirmation didn’t arrive until There were hints that I might be Sylvia Plath reincarnated as early as high ...