| FZ-256501-17 | Research Programs: Public Scholars | Heather Lenore Clark | The Light of the Mind: A Biography of American Poet and Novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2018 | $50,400.00 | Heather | Lenore | Clark | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | New York | NY | 10016-4309 | USA | 2017 | American Literature | Public Scholars | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 | A
biography of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) that emphasizes her literary development and her important place in American letters.
I am writing a biography of the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Although several biographies have been published since her death in 1963, a definitive, critical biography of America's best-known, 20th-century woman poet still does not exist. Because biographies of Plath tend to be inaccurate and sensationalist, there is a need for an in-depth, meticulously researched biography that resists caricature and helps restore Plath to the prominent place she deserves in American letters. Sylvia Plath: The Light of the Mind will recover Plath the writer. |