Diane Wood Middlebrook
author profile
born
April 16, 1939
died
December 15, 2007
gender
female
place of birth
Pocatello, Idaho, The United States
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
about this author
Middlebrook, who taught at Stanford for 35 years, was perhaps best known for Anne Sexton: A Biography. Its intense scrutiny of the poet's life made it "one of the turning points of late 20th-century biography," according to the <Guardian</i> newspaper. Middlebrook published several other well-received biographies and works of criticism, and was known for funding various arts organizations and literary salons for women. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington in 1961 and earned her Ph.D. from Yale in 1968. She married Carl Djerassi, inventor of the birth-control pill in 1985.
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Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 4.00 — 400 ratings — published 1991 6 editions |
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Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 3.87 — 224 ratings — published 2003 11 editions |
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 3.57 — 92 ratings — published 1998 7 editions |
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Gin Considered As a Demon (Elysian Press poetry series) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1983 |
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Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (A Norton paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980 |
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Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1974 |
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