A stash of love letters sent from American poet Sylvia Plath to her British husband and fellow poet Ted Hughes is up for auction at Sotheby’s. Also up for grabs are the legendary literary couple ...

An auction of possessions of the late poet Sylvia Plath brought in a seven-figure sum Wednesday, marking the first time many of the items, including Plath’s wedding band and intimate love ...

Off the page, “The Bell Jar” is really Sylvia Plath’s story. Originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas (to spare her mother’s feelings), “The Bell Jar” would not ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death.

Innumerable dirty dishes were washed while I took it in. What Clark has done is provide a nearly day-by-day account of Plath’s activities—and instead of being boring, it’s riveting.

I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath. I was just about to graduate school and begin my life. My mind was overflowing with ideas, countries, and careers I wanted to pursue.

Sylvia Plath lived all of 30 years. But one of the most significant moments — for her life and, as it turned out, for literature — spanned a mere month, June 1953, when she was 20. But Winder ...