Sylvia Plath: Biographies, Criticisms & More

This gallery presents book covers of biographies, critical studies, companions, and related works about Sylvia Plath. Images are being added progressively.

Biographies

The following biographies of Sylvia Plath have been published:

  • Edward Butscher, Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness (1976)
  • Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987)
  • Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (1989)
  • Ronald Hayman, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath (1991)
  • Paul Alexander, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath (1991)
  • Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1994)
  • Peter K. Steinberg, Sylvia Plath (2004)
  • Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl's Love Song (2013)
  • Carl Rollyson, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (2013)
  • Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (2020)

Criticism & Scholarship

  • Charles Newman, ed., The Art of Sylvia Plath (1970)
  • Gary Lane & Maria Stevens, Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography (1978)
  • Judith Kroll, Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1976)
  • Jon Rosenblatt, Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation (1979)
  • Christina Britzolakis, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (1999)
  • Tracy Brain, The Other Sylvia Plath (2001)
  • Christina Ladd, Sylvia Plath: A Reference Guide
  • Gail Crowther & Peter K. Steinberg, These Ghostly Archives (2017)
  • Gail Crowther, The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath (2017)

Companions & Guides

  • Caroline King Barnard Hall, Sylvia Plath, Revised (1998)
  • Tim Kendall, Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study (2001)
  • Jo Gill, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006)
  • Christina Britzolakis, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning

Memoirs & Related Works

  • Nancy Hunter Steiner, A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath (1973)
  • A. Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide (1971)
  • Elizabeth Sigmund & Gail Crowther, Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning (2014)
  • Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz (2021)
  • Gail Crowther, I Am Wife, I Am Woman (2023)

Translations & International Editions

Sylvia Plath's works have been translated into dozens of languages. Cover images for international editions are being compiled and will be added to this gallery. See also the Translations gallery.

Cover images for this gallery are being compiled. Please check back later.