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10 best books like Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton (Linda Gray Sexton): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, The Rise of Life on Earth, Robert Frost: A Life, The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams, Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
AuthorAnne Sexton
ISBN0618492429
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...
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
AuthorJanet Malcolm
ISBN0679751408
It's true, every time I think about this book I tremble in awe and reverence. It's like major parts of the whole thing about how human beings are human are here in its little pages. All that who are you really and anyway who is the I asking this question and what do these marks signify on these pages which apparently...
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
AuthorVirginia Spencer Carr
ISBN0820325228
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Robert Frost: A Life
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0805063412
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0306808056
This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Night of the...
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
AuthorJudy Oppenheimer
ISBN0449904059
Advice to women, 1933:

Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved, dah-dah-dah-dah

Don't fail to do your stuff
With a little powder and a puff
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved

If...
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorAndrew Wilson
ISBN1582344116
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.

For...
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
AuthorYehuda Koren
ISBN0786718617
The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman:...
Anne Sexton: A Biography
AuthorDiane Wood Middlebrook
ISBN0679741828
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to...
High Times & Rough Rides of a Bipolar Addict
AuthorKerry L. Barger
ISBN1463513216
"If anyone can prevent even a single child or teenager from repeating the mistakes described in this book... or help a loved one or family member avoid unnecessary future suffering... then my struggles will not have been in vain."

Imagine being arrested, handcuffed and locked behind the bars...
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness
AuthorEdward Butscher
ISBN0971059829
I was really looking forward to reading this book, and I did enjoy reading about the life of Sylvia Plath. However. The tone in Butscher's writing upset me quite a bit. He spends much of the book analyzing Sylvia's poetry. Her early poetry, he keeps damning as unsophisticated and not noteworthy. She was...
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
AuthorAnne Stevenson
ISBN0395937604


This book is unfair to Sylvia Plath, seemingly in an attempt to appease those who are still alive and have control over her estate. I take greatest issue not with the glossing over of Ted Hughes' abandonment and infidelity to Sylvia (and leaving her a single mother in the 1960s) but Stevenson's...
Poets in Their Youth
AuthorEileen Simpson
ISBN0374522618
In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply,...
Gertrude and Alice
AuthorDiana Souhami
ISBN1842120336
Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on September 8, 1907, in Paris, and remained together from that day until Gertrude's death in 1946. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray & Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso, and written about in the works of Hemingway, Paul...
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
AuthorPaul Alexander
ISBN0306812991
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...
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