{"product_id":"sylvia-plath-day-by-day-volume-1-1932-1955-hardcover","title":"Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Rollyson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar. \u003c\/i\u003eEach new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath's life and influence. \u003ci\u003eSylvia Plath Day by Day\u003c\/i\u003e, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 1 commences with Plath's birth in Boston in 1932, records her response to her elementary and high school years, her entry into Smith College, and her breakdown and suicide attempt, and ends on February 14, 1955, the day she wrote to Ruth Cohen, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, to accept admission as an \"affiliated student at Newnham College to read for the English Tripos.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eSylvia Plath Day by Day \u003c\/i\u003eis for readers of all kinds with a wide variety of interests in the woman and her work. The entries are suitable for dipping into and can be read in a minute or an hour. Ranging over several sources, including Plath's diaries, journals, letters, stories, and other prose and poetry--including new material and archived material rarely seen by readers--a fresh kaleidoscopic view of the writer emerges.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Rollyson \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of many biographies, including \u003ci\u003eSylvia Plath Day by Day, Volumes 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner Day by Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Sylvia Plath\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also coauthor (with Lisa Paddock) of \u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. \u003c\/i\u003eHis reviews of biographies have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e. He also writes a weekly column on biography for the\u003ci\u003e New York Sun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.57 x 9.37 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460600053938,"sku":"9781496835000","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4a718dab738f55c110cbff4ea2bf880d.webp?v=1778926000","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/sylvia-plath-day-by-day-volume-1-1932-1955-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}