Her Husband Paperback by Diane Middlebrook

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2004-08-31)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780142004876
• Item Weight: 362.88 grams
• Dimensions: 21.34 x 13.97 x 2.13 cm

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted—and nourished—his entire life by his relationship to Sylvia Plath.

Her Husband is a triumph of the biographer's art and an up-close look at a couple who saw each other as the means to becoming who they wanted to be: writers and mythic representations of a whole generation.

About the Author

Diane Middlebrook is the author of two highly praised, bestselling biographies, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton and Anne Sexton: A Biography, which was a National Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.