Bitter fame a life of Sylvia Plath
Main Author: | Stevenson, Anne, 1933 Jan. 3- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1989.
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Item Description: |
"A Peter Davison book." Includes index. |
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Physical Description: |
413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Bibliography: p. |
ISBN: |
0395453747 |
Author Notes: |
As a poet, Stevenson published 16 books, including various selected volumes and two collected editions, The Collected Poems of Anne Stevenson, 1955-1995 (1996) and Poems 1955-2005 (2005). Her last collection, Completing the Circle, was published in March 2020. Her other works included criticism, radio plays, essays, and biographies. Bitter Fame (1989) is her controversial account of the life of Sylvia Plath. She received numerous awards including, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry; Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation; and the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award. Anne Stevenson died after a short illness on September 14, 2020 in Durham, in northeast England. She was 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |