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Diane Middlebrook | |
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| Born | Diane Helen Wood April 16, 1939 Pocatello, Idaho, U.S. |
| Died | December 15, 2007 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Genre | Biography |
| Notable works | Anne Sexton, A Biography (1991) Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton (1998) Her Husband: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath, a Marriage (2003) |
Diane Helen Middlebrook (née Wood; April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007)[1] was an American biographer, poet, and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University. She wrote critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath (along with Plath's husband Ted Hughes), and jazz musician Billy Tipton.
- ^ Cynthia Haven, "Diane Middlebrook, professor emeritus and legendary biographer, dies at 68", Stanford Report, December 15, 2007.