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Diane Wood Middlebrook

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born

April 16, 1939 in Pocatello, Idaho, The United States

died

December 15, 2007

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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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 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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Books by Diane Wood Middlebrook

Average rating: 4.05 · 2,895 ratings · 187 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Anne Sexton: A Biography 4.09 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage 3.84 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Peter Davison (Editor) 3.51 avg rating — 182 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gin Considered As a Demon (Elysian Press poetry series) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	My rating:
	Worlds Into Words: Understanding Modern Poems 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980	My rating:
	Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Marilyn Yalom (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1974	My rating:
	Love Poems by Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook (Foreword by) 4.24 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Poems by Sylvia Plath, Diane Wood Middlebrook 4.24 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century by Marilyn Yalom, Diane Wood Middlebrook (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:

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Quotes by Diane Wood Middlebrook

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography

tags: depression , helping-others , mental-illness , relating , self-disclosure , suffering

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“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage

tags: biography , education , hughes

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