Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath

Since her suicide at the age of 30 in 1963, Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar, has been one of the most intriguing writers in modern poetry, as well as the most wildly misunderstood. Drawing on extensive and exclusive interviews and exhaustive archival research, Alexander has created the definitive portrait of a brilliant–and tragic–genius. Photographs.