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Diane Wood Middlebrook

Born

in Pocatello, Idaho, The United States

April 16, 1939

Died

December 15, 2007

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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 8,609 ratings · 498 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Anne Sexton: A Biography 4.17 avg rating — 4,080 ratings — published 1991 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage 3.92 avg rating — 1,746 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton 3.53 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Ovid: A Life Recreated 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century (Women And Culture Series) by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Editor), Marilyn Yalom (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GIN CONSIDERED AS A DEMON: The Poems of Diane Wood Middlebrook. (Elysian Press poetry series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (Norton Paperback) by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Roberta Adkins (Drawings) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anne Sexton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1920	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Housewife into poet, the apprenticeship of Anne Sexton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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 Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage

tags: biography, education, hughes

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“Marriage opens a joint account in the language bank, with 'we' as the currency, and that pronoun yokes two individual identities with different stakes in marriage.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook

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