Anne Sexton: A Biography
8 best books like Anne Sexton: A Biography (Diane Wood Middlebrook): The Collected Poems, The Spectator Bird, The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
| Author | Sylvia Plath |
| ISBN | 0808595040 |
The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0140139400 |
This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
Joe Allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, in...
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
| Author | Danny Gregory |
| ISBN | 1401307922 |
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This book is full of pointers on drawing, on creating something on paper with ink. There are a lot of ideas on what to draw ,when (now) to draw but not how to draw. Every page feels like a call to put pen to paper.
The text is typeset in a handwriting...
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
| Author | Anne Sexton |
| ISBN | 0618492429 |
An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from...
| Author | Marion Meade |
| ISBN | 0140116168 |
She was known for outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker - a private life set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with...
| Author | Nan Goldin |
| ISBN | 0893813397 |
A photobook classic, and perhaps the work for which New York photographer Nan Goldin remains best known, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe." Her work...
| Author | Linda Gray Sexton |
| ISBN | 0316782084 |
Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come...
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
| Author | Paul Alexander |
| ISBN | 0306812991 |
I think it was a shit book, only made somewhat interesting by the subject matter itself. I do not wish to go on, as many others have already explained why the author chose not to quote from basically ANY actual material, but what this left the reader with was the most simplistic, vacuous paraphrasing of...
