It has been just over 50 years since Sylvia Plath committed suicide, and her place in American letters is secure.
Today she is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the century.
When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.
Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers.
But, like most writers, Plath changed th...