DIANE MIDDLEBROOK
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Walt Whitman and Wallace
Stevens
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974)
Worlds Into Words:
Understanding Modern Poems (New York: W.W
Norton & Co,
1980)
Gin Considered as a
Demon
(poems; Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Elysian Press,
1983)
Coming to Light:
American Women Poets in the 20th Century (essays), ed. Diane
Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom (Ann
Arbor: The University of Michigan
Press, 1985)
Selected Poems of Anne
Sexton,
ed. with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook
and Diana Hume George (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1988)
Anne Sexton, A Biography (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1991; New York: Vintage
Books,
1992)
Suits Me: The Double
Life of Billy Tipton
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998)
Foreign
and other editions of books
Anne Sexton: A Biography
German: Zwischen
Therapie und Tod: Das Leben der Dichterin Anne Sexton. Aus dem
Amerikanischen
von Barbara von Bechtolsheim und Silvia Morawetz. Zurich:
ArcheVerlag
AG, 1993
Italian: Anne Sexton: Una Vita.
Traduzione di Claudia Rusconi, Gloria Gordigiani;
traduzione delle poesie, Stefano De
Angelis. Firenze: Casa Editrice Le
Lettere, 1998.
Portugese:
Anne Sexton: A Morte Não É A Vida. Tradução Raul de Sá Barbosa. São
Paulo: Editora Siciliano, 1994
Spanish: Anne Sexton, Una Biografía.
Traducción de Roser Berdagué.
Barcelona:
Circe
Ediciones, S.A, 1998
UK: Anne
Sexton, A Biography. London: Virago Press, 1991
Suits Me: The Double
Life of Billy Tipton
Books on
tape: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Unabridged, read by Mary
Peiffer. Newport Beach, California: Books on
Tape, Inc, 2000
Chinese: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Translated by Zhu,
En-ling.
Taipei:
Fembooks Publishing Company, 2001. http://www.fembooks.com.tw
Dutch: Maatwerk:
Het dubbelleven van jazzmusicus Billy Tipton, die na zijn dood een
vrouw bleek te zijn.
Vertaald door Carla Benink. Amsterdam:
Arena, 1999
German: Er War
Eine Frau: Das Doppelleben des Jazzmusikers Billy Tipton. Aus dem
Amerikanischen von Uta Goridis. München:
Piper Verlag Gmbh, 1999.
Japanese: forthcoming, Fuso
Publishing Inc
UK: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. London: Virago, 1998.
ARTICLES
"David
Henderson's Holy Mission" (interview with poet David Henderson), Saturday
Review, 9 September 1972, pp. 38-40
"Bound
Each to Each" (retrospective review of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg),
Parnassus:
Poetry in Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1974), pp. 128-
135; reprinted in Modern Poetry Criticism, 14 vols., ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea
House, 1987
"Making
Visible the Common World: Walt Whitman and Feminist Poetry," The Kenyon
Review, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall 1980),
pp. 14-27
"Housewife
into Poet: The Apprenticeship of Anne Sexton," The New England
Quarterly, Vol. LVI, No. 4
(December 1983), pp. 483-503
"Joyce
Carol Thomas," Women Writers of the
West Coast, ed. Marilyn Yalom (Santa
Barbara: Capra Press, 1984), pp. 31-39
"The
Problem of the Woman Artist: Louise Bogan, 'The Alchemist,'" Critical Essays on
Louise Bogan, ed. Martha Collins
(Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984), pp. 174-180
"Becoming
Anne Sexton," The Denver Quarterly,
Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 1984, pp. 23-
34; reprinted in Anne Sexton:Telling the Tale,
ed. Steven E. Colburn (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1988) pp. 7-21
"Poet
of Weird Abundance (Anne Sexton)," Parnassus:
Poetry in Review, Vol. 12,
No. 2 and Vol. 13, No. 1
(Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter, 1985) pp. 293-315; reprinted
in Anne
Sexton: Telling the Tale, ed. Colburn (op. cit.) pp. 447-470; and excerpted
in Critical
Essays
on Anne Sexton, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989), pp.
72-80
"1957:
Anne Sexton's Bedlam," Pequod,
special issue on biography/autobiography,
No.s 23-24, 1988, pp. 131-142; reprinted in Critical Essays on Anne Sexton,
ed. Wagner-Martin (op.cit.), pp. 239-246
"Anne
Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute,"
Sexton: Selected Criticism, ed. Diana Hume
George (Champaign: University of Illinois
Press, 1988), pp. 211-220
"Seduction
in Anne Sexton's Play Mercy Street," Sexton: Selected Criticism, ed. Diana
Hume George (Champaign: University of
Illinois Press, 1988), pp. 19-26
"Anne
Sexton and Robert Lowell," Original
Essays on Anne Sexton, ed. Frances Bixler
(Conway: Central Arkansas University
Press, 1988) pp. 5-21
"Foreword,"
Love Poems, by Anne Sexton (Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1989)
"Postmodernism
and the Biographer," Revealing
Lives: Gender in Autobiography and
Biography, ed. Susan Bell and
Marilyn Yalom (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New
York Press, 1990)
"Spinning
Straw into Gold: A Biographer's Story," Stanford Magazine, June
1991, pp.
47-50; reprinted in The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, ed. Dale
Salwak (New York: Macmillan, 1996) pp.
86-90
"Psychotherapy
as Theme and Influence in the Work of Anne Sexton," Psychotherapy,
Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 401-409
"Anne
Sexton, James Wright, and the Making of The
Awful Rowing Toward God," The
Library Chronicle, Vol. 21, No.s 1/2
(1992), pp. 223-235
"The
Ethics of Disclosure," Letters: The
Journal of the Royal Society of Literature
(London) Autumn 1993, pp. 5-9
"What
Was Confessional Poetry?" The
Columbia History of American Poetry (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1993),
pp. 632-649
"Channeling
Plath," Mirabella, December
1993, pp. 72-75
"Where
All the Ladders Start (Philip Larkin)," Hudson Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 4
(Winter 1994) pp. 751-756
"Tillie
Olsen and Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute," Listening to Silences: New
Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fishkin (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 17-23
"Anne
Sexton," The Dictionary of American
Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1994), pp. 711-712
“Telling
Secrets,” The Seductions of Biography,
ed. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff
(New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 123-129
“Anne
Sexton,” The Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Volume 169: American Poets
Since World War II, ed. Joseph Conte
(Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark
Layman, Inc., 1996), pp. 244-53
“Preface,”
Aphorisms, Poems & Tailed Passages, by Fabio Massimo Faggi (San
Francisco: Pince-nez Press, 1998)
“Poetic
Justice for Sylvia Plath,” New York Times,
27 January 1998, p. 26
“The
Biographer as Investigative Journalist,” IRE
Journal, May-June 1998, pp. 9-11
“Introduction,”
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (New
York: Alfred A. Knopf / Everyman’s Library,
1998), pp vii-xviii
“Ian
McKellan Reads The Odyssey,” Joe, vol 1, number 1, June 1999, p. 84
“Plath,
Hughes, and Three Caryatids,” Eye Rhymes (catalogue to accompany the
exhibition of
visual art by Sylvia Plath at Indiana
University) Bloomington: Indiana University Press
(forthcoming November 2002)
“In
Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes,” New
Critical Essays on Ted Hughes,
ed. Joanny Moulin (under consideration)
POEMS
"Aubade,"
"Maya," The Southern Review,
Vol. IX, Winter 1973, pp. 186-87
"Two
Poems for Christopher Caudwell, Dead in Spain, 1939," The Southern Review,
Vol. XI, Spring 1975, pp. 428-429
"You,
Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," "On
Jealousy
Considered as Health," "Water,
Fire, Earth, Air," "The Story of My Life," "Musée du
Louvre: Mercure Attachant Sa Talonnière,"
"Without Selection," "Eating Snow in the
Sierras," Sequoia Twentieth Anniversary Issue: Poetry 1956-1976 (Stanford,
1976),
pp. 53-58
"Cornwall:
Vista," Women Studies, An
Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1
(1977), p. 61
"At
Yad Va'Shem," The Jerusalem Post
Magazine, 14 July 1978, p. 18
"You,
Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," reprinted
in Networks:
An
Anthology of Bay Area Women Poets, ed. Carol Simone (Palo Alto: B. Latimer,
1979)
"Losing
You," ("Aveda") translated into Hebrew by Amos Oz, Shdemot, No. 69 (Tel
Aviv, 1979), p. 100
"February
Afternoon, in a Boat on the Seine," "Losing You,"
"Later," "Gin Considered as
a Demon," "Carl Uncovers a Bed
of Wild Strawberries," Worlds Into
Words:
Understanding Modern Poems (New York: W.W. Norton
& Co, 1980), pp. 121-128
Sequence,
Four Episodes in a Contagion of Dreams:
"The Contagiousness of Dreams," "Carol's
Dream of Diana," "Lost
Prince," "To You, Falling Asleep After a Quarrel," The
Southern Review, Vol. XVI, Spring 1980,
pp. 416-417. (Reprinted in Anthology of
Magazine
Verse Yearbook of American Poetry, 1981 Edition, ed. Stan
F. Pater (Beverly Hills:
Monitor Book Company, Inc., 1981)
"The
Deviousness of Objects of Desire," "New Brunswick Station, 12:37
p.m.," Inquiry
Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 13 (September 1982), p. 36
"One
Woman Looking at Another," set by Conrad Cummings in song cycle Five Songs
for
HWH, Oberlin, Ohio, November 1985
"After
Klee's Geschwister,"
"Buddhist Prayer Flags from Bhutan," in Sequoia:Centennial Issue,
1986, p.108
"Aspen,"
Plains Poetry Journal, No. 28
(January 1989), p.40
"November:
Pamela's Ghost," The Harbinger,
Vol.VII, No.11 (March 1989), p.3
“Hair,”
American Poets Say Goodbye to the
Twentieth Century, ed. Andrei Codrescu and Laura
Rosenthal (New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 1996), pp. 250-251
BOOK REVIEWS
"A
Modern Thoreau with Nightmares" (review of In Deep: Country Essays, by Maxine Kumin), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 31 May 1987, p. 8
"Forever
in Amber" (review of Sylvia Plath, A
Biography, by Linda Wagner-Martin), The
Nation, Volume 245, Number 18(28 November 1987), pp. 656-659
"A
Novelist's Eye for Poetry" (review of Available
Light, by Marge Piercy), San
Francisco Chronicle Review, 5 June 1988, p. 5
"The
Life of a Good Old Girl" (review of
Close Connections, Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance, by Ann
Waldron), The Hudson Review, Vol.
XLI, No. 3 (Autumn 1988), pp. 581- 585
"The
Enraged Muse" (review of Bitter
Fame, A Life of Sylvia Plath, by Anne Stevenson), Times Literary Supplement (London), 27 October 1989, p. 1179
"Western
Literature's Underside" (review of
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, by Toni
Morrison), Los Angeles Times Book Review,
24 May 1992, pp 2 & 7.
"A
Journey to Bedlam and Back" (review of Girl,
Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen), The
Washington Post Book World, 25 July 1993, p. 9
"Son
Bathed in Astral Light" (review of My
Father's Guru, by Jeffrey Masson), The
Independent on Sunday (London), 29 August 1993, p. 26
"The
Age Mystique," (review of The
Fountain of Age, by Betty Friedan),
Los Angeles Times Book Review, 19 September 1993, pp 2, 8.
"Channeling
Plath" (review of The Silent Woman,
by Janet Malcolm), Mirabella,
December 1993, pp. 72-75.
"Where
All the Ladders Start" (review of Philip
Larkin: A Writer's Life, by Andrew Motion), The Hudson Review, Volume XLVI, Number 4 (Winter 1994) pp. 751-756
“She Knew What She Wanted” (review of Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela
Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, by Christopher Ogden), The Washington Post Book World, 15 May
1994, p. 2
“Robert
Lowell’s Life Again, Alas” (review of Lost
Puritan, by Paul Mariani), Boston
Globe, 18 September 1994, p.17.
“Do
Clothes Reveal the Man?”(review of Sex
and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress, by Anne Hollander), Los Angeles Times Book Review, 25
September 1994, pp.1, 10
“The
Analyst and Her Appetites”(review of Karen
Horney, by Bernard J. Paris), The
Washington Post Book World, 29 January 1995, p. 5
“Portrait
of a Lady” (review of The Art of Scandal:
The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Douglass Shand-Tucci), New York Times Book Review, 28 December
1997, p. 6
“Helen
Keller's Search for Self-Expression,” (review of Helen Keller, A Life, by Dorothy Hermann) San Francisco Chronicle Review,
16 August 1998, p. 3
“What
It Means to Be a Woman” (review of Woman:
An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 18 April 1999, p. 5
“Anatomy
of Suicide” (review of Night Falls Fast,
by Kay Redfield Jamison, and Where the
Roots Reach for Water, by Jeffrey Smith), San Francisco Chronicle Review,
5 December 1999, p. 5
“Acocella
Criticizes Cather’s Critics,” (review of
Willa Cather and the Politics of
Criticism, by Joan Acocella), San
Francisco Chronicle Review, 2 April
2000, p. 4
“In Plath’s Full Journals, a Lusty Embrace of
Life” (review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed Karen
Kukil), Boston Globe, 5 November 2000, pp. E 1-2
“Footnotes
on Ted and Sylvia” (review of Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared:
A
Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, by Lucas Myers, and Sylvia and Ted, by
Emma Tennant), San Francisco Chronicle
Datebook, 20 May 2001, pp. 72, 77
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Audio
"The
Sound of Poems," audio tape to accompany Worlds Into Words (Palo Alto: Kelson
Enterprises, 1978)
Video
"Twentieth
Century British and American Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Thomas, Crane, Stevens,
Roethke" (18 fifty-minute black and
white videotape lectures; Stanford, 1977)
"Twentieth
Century Women's Writing as Critique and Vision: Woolf, Cather, Stein,
Hellman, Didion, Lessing, Sexton,
Morrison, Rich, Wittig" (19 fifty-minute color
videotape lectures; Stanford, 1981)
"The
Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath," Great Teachers, Great Texts (video
series produced by the Stanford Alumni
Association with the Stanford Department of
English, 1993)
Pilot
series, Cover to Cover: Conversations
with Writers about Reading. Two 26-minute videos
produced by The Stanford Channeland
televised over Channel 51, spring/summer 1999:
“Life Writing,” Diane Middlebrook in
conversation about memoirs and biographies, with
Arnold
Rampersad and Tobias Wolff
“Literary Prizes,” Diane Middlebrook in
conversation aboud Ted Hughes’s
Birthday Letters, with Eavan Boland and
Nicholas Jenkins
Finding the Girlfriends:
The Biographer as Investigative Journalist (A Multimedia
Showcase), designed and programmed
with Jay Dempster at the University of
Warwick, England, August 1995. (Prepared for presentation at the conference
“Literary
Journalism and Literary Scholarship,”
sponsored by the Department of English at the
University of Warwick, 3 November 1995)
A book about the literary career of the English poet Ted
Hughes, to be published by
Viking / Putnam, 2003
Ovid. A biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be
published by Viking / Putnam, 2008
The Stanford Book Salon, a web-based book group
hosted by DM and sponsored by the Stanford
Alumni Association. Scheduled to begin 1 January
2003.
PROFESSIONAL
Education
University of Washington, Seattle,
1958-61, AB, 1961
Yale University, MA, 1962; PhD, 1968
Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, 1961
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1961
Albert S. Cook Memorial Prize for Poetry,
Yale, 1962
Yale University Fellowships, 1963-5
Danforth Teaching Fellowship, Yale, 1964-5
Academy of American Poets Prize, Yale, 1965
Theron Rockwell Field Prize for doctoral
dissertation, Yale, 1968
University Fellow, Stanford, 1975-7
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching,
Stanford, 1977
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research, 1982-3
Fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe
College, 1982-3
Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center,
1983-4
Pew Foundation Faculty Research Grant,
Stanford, 1987
Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in
Teaching, Stanford, 1987
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 1988-9
Richard W. Lyman Award for Service to
Stanford, Alumni Association, 1989
Fellow of the Rockefeller Study Center at
Bellagio, 1990
Finalist, National Book Award (for Anne Sexton), 1991
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle
Award (for Anne Sexton), 1992
Bay Area Books Reviewers Award,
Non-fiction(for Anne Sexton), 1992
Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal,
Non-fiction (for Anne Sexton), 1992
Finalist, Lambda Foundation Literary Award
(for Suits Me), 1999
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Kenyon College,
1999
Assistant Professor of English, Stanford
University, 1966-73
Visiting Associate Professor, Rutgers
University, 1973
Associate Professor of English, Stanford
University, 1974-83
Director, Center for Research on Women,
Stanford University, 1977-79
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies,
Stanford University, 1979-82
Professor of English, Stanford University,
1983-
Chair, Program in Feminist Studies, 1985-88
Howard H. & Jessie T. Watkins
University Professor, Stanford, 1985-90
Professor of English, Stanford University,
one-third time: 1990 – 2002
Professor of English, Emerita: 1 September
2002
Membership in
Professional Organizations
Member, Modern Language Association, 1966-
Trustee, Djerassi Resident Artists Program,
1980-1996; Chair of the Board, 1994
Advisory Board, Kelsey Street Press 1994-
Member, Investigative Reporters &
Editors, 1995-99
Editorial Board, Chadwyck-Healey LION (Literature
Online), 1997-99
Advisory Board, Humanities West (San Francisco),
1997-
Member, California Classical Association,
1999-
Member, International Association of
University Professors of English, 1999-
Member, Biographers Club, London, 1999-
Member, The Authors Guild, 2001-
Member, Institute of English Studies,
University of London, 2001-
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