Bitter Fame

Name: Bitter Fame
Author: Anne Stevenson

by Anne Stevenson

Critical biography of Sylvia Plath examining her life, work, and contested literary legacy

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Anne Stevenson

British-American poet who wrote Bitter Fame, the controversial biography of Sylvia Plath, and whose own poetry is formal and intellectually rigorous. She was a close reader of Elizabeth Bishop.

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