Diane Wood Middlebrook

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died

December 15, 2007

gender

female

place of birth

Pocatello, Idaho, United States

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 <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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avg rating: 3.92 | 861 ratings | 8 distinct works

	Anne Sexton: A Biography (Paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 3.99 — 281 ratings — published 1992 4 editions	my rating:
	Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage (Paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 3.99 — 138 ratings — published 2004 11 editions	my rating:
	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton (Paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 3.54 — 67 ratings — published 1999 7 editions	my rating:
	Gin Considered As a Demon (Elysian Press poetry series) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 1983	my rating:
	Zauber Und Zeichen Sexton (Paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 0	my rating:
	Zwischen Therapie und Tod. Das Leben der Dichterin Anne Sexton (Gebundene Ausgabe) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1993	my rating:
	Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (A Norton paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980	my rating:
	Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens (Hardcover) by Diane Wood Middlebrook avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1974	my rating:

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