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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

She is one of the most written about authors of the 20th century. Sylvia Plath has inspired not only poets and poetry lovers, but also biographers keen to analyze her life and work. Many books on ...

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 ...