Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted--and nourished--his entire life by his relationship to Sylvia Plath.

Her Husband is a triumph of the biographer's art and an up-close look at a couple who saw each other as the means to becoming who they wanted to be: writers and mythic representations of a whole generation.

Author: Diane Middlebrook
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 08/31/2004
Pages: 361
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.50w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780142004876

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/26/2004 pg. 28
Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 28

About the Author
Diane Middlebrook is the author of two highly praised, bestselling biographies, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton and Anne Sexton: A Biography, which was a National Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.