Diane Wood Middlebrook




Diane Wood Middlebrook

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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 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 Sy... 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 B... 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 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: Understandi... Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (A Norton paperback)
by Diane Wood Middlebrook
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Walt Whitman and Wallace Steve... Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens
by Diane Wood Middlebrook
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