NORTHAMPTON — Sylvia Plath, the writer and poet whose 1963 novel “The Bell Jar” was a vanguard of second-wave feminism, is the core of a small but thoughtfully curated exhibit entitled “The Bell Jars: ...

In “Red Comet,” biographer Heather Clark describes Sylvia Plath facing her husband Ted Hughes’s abandonment with a poem by British writer Stevie Smith taped above the desk. She is writing the ...

Plants like the silverleaf geranium, seen here, were studied by Sylvia Plath during her time at Smith College. Sarah Loomis, left, the manager of education at Smith’s Lyman Conservatory, and Colin ...

Since her suicide in 1963, Sylvia Plath, the confessional poet and author of the classic coming-of-age novel “The Bell Jar,” has been an object of fascination and the subject of a steady stream of ...

Halfway through "Red Comet," Heather Clark's incandescent, richly researched biography of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), there's a revelatory anecdote that strikes at the heart of the creative partnership ...