Sylvia Plath: A Biography.

National Review | March 18, 1988| | Copyright

Sylvia Plath: A Biography

THERE IS a desperate need for a good biography of Sylvia Plath. Plath's Letters Home (1975), edited by her mother, Aurelia, present an idealized view of her life; the first biography, by Edward Butscher (1977), is thoroughly inadequate; her Journals (1982), edited by Frances McCullough, are heavily censored; and her husband, Ted Hughes, has suppressed or destroyed many of her other works. Hughes, who controls Miss Plath's literary estate, has also used his power to censor works about her; his version of their marriage has never been told. ...

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