Bitter Fame A Life of Sylvia Plath Author:Anne Stevenson This is the first authoritative biography of the poet Sylvia Plath, a tense, precocious, New England-bred woman whose principal works were not published until after her suicide, at thirty, in London in 1963. Her writings have branded a permanent mark on our literary consciousness. Bitter Fame brings together the testimony of tho... more »se who knew Plath best, many of whom have never before spoken out. Relying on published and unpublished sources, and benefiting from the unstinting help of Plath's sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes, it explores Plath's poetry with a distinctive freshness and concentration. « less