Her Husband : Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage

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 Husbandis 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.

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