Emily Van Duyne

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and scholar—radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide, and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study...

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne, a superfan and scholar, radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide, and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades...