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Bibliography of authors participating in the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium

Edited on 26 September. Anita Helle's The Unraveling Archive: essays on Sylvia Plat will not be on sale at the symposium. Please purchase copies in advance via your local independent bookshop, a larger chain store, or Amazon.com. Sorry for any confusion. - Peter

The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium is just one month away! There will be a book signing, open to the public on Sunday 28 October, 2007. This event will take place at Rhodes, from 1300-1400. Below is a bibliography of books by authors participating in the symposium. I must stress that it is incomplete. For example, writers like A. Alvarez and Linda Wagner-Martin have published, between then, a "bookshelf full of books" to quote Plath.

I do not know at this point which books will be for sale during the symposium, the list below is just a sample of what might be there, or what people may wish to bring if they own copies already. Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley's Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's art of the visual is expected to be on sale on 25 October. I do apologize if there are authors presenting that are not listed here. Please email me or leave a comment if this is the case and I'll add you to the list.

Bibliography of authors participating in the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium

Alvarez, A. 1968. Beyond all this fiddle : essays, 1955-1967. London, Allen Lane, Penguin P.
---. 1971. The savage god : A study of suicide. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
---. 1974. Hers : a novel. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
---. 1981. Life after marriage : Love in the age of divorce. New York : Simon and Schuster.
---. 1999. Where did it all go right? London : Richard Cohen Books.
---. 2005. The writer's voice. New York : W. W. Norton.

Axelrod, Steven Gould. 1990. Sylvia Plath : The would and the cure for words. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.

Becker, Jillian. 2003. Giving up: the last days of Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press. (added 3 October 2007)

Bowman, Catherine. 1993. 1-800-HOT-RIBS : poems. Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith.
---. 1996. Rock farm. Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith.
---. 2006. Notarikon. New York : Four Way Books.

Brain, Tracy. 2001. The other Sylvia Plath. Harlow, England : Longman.

Britzolakis, Christina. 1999. Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

Bundzten, Lynda K. 1983. Plath's incarnations. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press.
---. 2001. The other Ariel. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press.

Christodoulides, Nephie. 2005. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking : Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's work. New York : Rodopi.

Churchwell, Sarah. 2004. The many lives of Marilyn Monroe. New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt.

Connell, Elaine. 1993. Sylvia Plath : Killing the angel in the house. Hebden Bridge. : Pennine Pens.

Connors, Kathleen and Sally Bayley., eds. 2007. Eye rhymes: Sylvia Plath's art of the visual. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Egeland, Marianne. 1997. Sylvia Plath. Oslo : Gyldendal.

Gill, Jo., ed. 2006. The Cambridge companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press.

Hammer, Langdon, ed. 2006. Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and Selected Letters. New York : Library of America.
---. 1993. Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Helle, Anita., ed. 2007. The unraveling archive : Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press.

Hurdle, Crystal. 2003. After Ted & Sylvia. Vancouver, B.C. : Ronsdale Press

Kendall, Tim. 2001. Sylvia Plath : A critical study. London : Faber and Faber.

Kroll. Judith. 1976. Chapters in a mythology : The poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York : Harper & Row.

Kukil, Karen V., ed. 2000. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. London: Faber and Faber.

Larschan, Richard J. 1986. The diagnosis is cancer : a psychological and legal resource handbook for cancer patients, their families, and helping professionals. Palo Alto, CA : Bull Pub. Co.

Middlebrook, Diane. 2003. Her husband : Hughes and Plath -- a marriage. New York : Viking.

Norris, Pamela. 2006. Words of love : Passionate women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath. New York : HarperCollins Publishers.

Peel, Robin. 2002. Sylvia Plath and Cold War politics. Madison, N. J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Steinberg, Peter K. 2004. Sylvia Plath. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers.

Stevenson, Anne. 1989. Bitter Fame: A life of Sylvia Plath. Boston : Houghton Mifflin.

Wagner-Martin, Linda., ed. 1984. Critical essays on Sylvia Plath. Boston : G. K. Hall.
---. 1987. Sylvia Plath: A biography. New York : Simon and Schuster.
---., ed. 1988. Sylvia Plath, the critical heritage. London : Routledge.
---. 1992. The bell jar, a novel of the fifties. New York : Maxwell Macmillan International.
---. 1999. Sylvia Plath--a literary life. New York : St. Martin's Press
---. 2003. Sylvia Plath : a literary life. New York : Palgrave Macmillan.

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