In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood imagines her life branching out before her like a green fig-tree. Each individual fig on the branches represents a ...

At the Metropolitan Opera House, the troupe revives Frederick Ashton’s richly textured three-act production, set to music by ...

In American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...

The heartwarming canine comedy classic, “Sylvia,” from Point Loma Playhouse, has four final performances July 11-13 at Point ...

Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she's been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the 'real' Plath, asks Lillian Crawford.

Sylvia died on Oct. 26, 1965, from her extensive injuries and malnourishment, the Indy Star reported. At Baniszewski's trial the following year, she pleaded not guilty, though she was eventually ...

Sylvia Foresaw Death, Sister Sobs. Indianapolis News, May 2, 1966. The sobbing sister of Sylvia Marie Likens today quoted her as saying, "Jenny, I know you don't want me to die.

Sylvia Woods was born in Hemingway in 1926, and her father died a few days later. In 1929, her mother, Julia Pressley, left Woods, her only child, with her grandmother and other relatives, joining ...