Cheryl Krasnick Walsh quotes part of a Sylvia Plath poem: “Your dark Amputations / crawl and appall.” Biography is often bashed by historians who say the genre accords too much significance to ...

From its very debut episode, Dickinson made one thing crystal clear—it wasn’t concerned about playing by the rules. Apple TV+ ...

At first, Jim Reynolds thought it was a scarecrow slumped on the sloping bank in front of West Chapple farm, attracting the ...

However, as these two books show, the lives they led were very different. Perhaps the contrast stems from the timing of their ...

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The ...

As her environment changes, Lael Neale explains how her freeing songwriting process is a rebellion against the noise of material living.

Like Crowther’s 2021 book, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton ... viciousness” as she situates her biography in the social circumstances of ...

Books often linger with us long after the final page. For some readers, this connection is so profound that they carry it ...