The Light of the Mind: A Biography of American Poet and Novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

FAIN: FZ-256501-17

Heather Lenore Clark
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center (New York, NY 10016-4309)

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.

Associated Products

Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar
Writer: No writer
Director: Teresa Griffiths
Producer: Tim Kendall
Abstract: Fact and fiction in the summer of 1953 and Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar.
Year: 2018
Access Model: They are working on this.

Sylvia Plath (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Sylvia Plath
Writer: Alexis Coe
Director: Alexis Coe
Producer: The Wing
Abstract: A podcast about how Sylvia Plath is not just a "college girl phase."
Date: 11/21/18
Primary URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-mans-land-by-the-wing/id1441459875?mt=2
Primary URL Description: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-mans-land-by-the-wing/id1441459875?mt=2
Access Model: open
Format: Digital File
Format: Web

“P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and Her Biographers.” Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: “P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and Her Biographers.” Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture
Abstract: An examination of how Sylvia Plath's biographers have pathologized her.
Author: Heather Clark
Date: 03/15/18
Location: Graduate Center, City University of New York

“Triple Threat Woman: The Letters of Sylvia Plath” (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: “Triple Threat Woman: The Letters of Sylvia Plath”
Abstract: An evening celebrating the publication of Sylvia Plath's Collected Letters.
Author: Heather Clark
Date: 10/23/18
Location: British Library, London

This is the Light of the Mind: Sylvia Plath (Exhibition)
Title: This is the Light of the Mind: Sylvia Plath
Curator: Judith Raymo
Abstract: Objects from Judith Raymo's private Sylvia Plath collection on exhibit at the Grolier Club, Manhattan.
Year: 2017

Muse Mothers: Eavan Bland and Sylvia Plath (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Muse Mothers: Eavan Bland and Sylvia Plath
Author: Heather Clark
Abstract: An examination of Sylvia Plath's influence on the Irish poet Eavan Boland.
Date: 04/12/18
Conference Name: Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar

“P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and Her Biographers.” (Article)
Title: “P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and Her Biographers.”
Author: Heather Clark
Abstract: An examination of how Sylvia Plath's biographers have pathologized her.
Year: 2019
Access Model: open
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Sylvia Plath in Context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

“Like Fury: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in 1956.” (Article)
Title: “Like Fury: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in 1956.”
Author: Heather Clark
Abstract: An examination of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes at Cambridge University.
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Ted Hughes Society Journal, V1.2, 2018.
Publisher: Ted Hughes Society Journal

Hughes and Plath (Article)
Title: Hughes and Plath
Author: Heather Clark
Abstract: This chapter gives a broad overview of the literary relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Year: 2018
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Ted Hughes in Context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” (Article)
Title: “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”
Author: Heather Clark
Abstract: An examination of Sylvia Plath's early short story, "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom."
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Harvard Review Online
Publisher: Harvard Review

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Book)
Title: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Author: Heather Lenore Clark
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=307961168
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry (307961168)
Publisher: Knopf
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 307961168

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