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This is the first full-length biography of the controversial poet Sylvia Plath whose suicide in made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation, such as Robert Lowell and

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For Sylvia Plath, as even the most casual reading of her poetry demonstrates, the central obsession from the beginning to the end of her life and career was her father, Professor Otto Emile Plath.

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  1. Edward Butscher (Author)
 

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