DIANE WOOD
MIDDLEBROOK
Contact information:1101 Green Street, #1501
San Francisco CA 94109-2012
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e-mail: dwm@stanford.edu url: www.DianeMiddlebrook.com
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
Finalist, Bay Area Books Reviewers Award,
Non-fiction (for Her Husband), 2004
Honorary Member, Christӳ College,
University of Cambridge, 2004
Advisory
Board, Christӳ Research Institute, 2004-
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
2004-
Chair, Panel on Non-Fiction, National Book
Awards, 2004
Professional Appointments
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, 1999-2002
Member, Biographers Club, London, 1999-
Member, The Authors Guild, 2001-
Member, Commonwealth Club of California,
2002-
Publications
BOOKS
Walt Whitman and Wallace
Steven. 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
Her Husband: Hughes & Plath,
a Marriage,
New York: Viking Press, 2003
Foreign and
other editions of books
Anne Sexton: A Biography
German: Zwischen
Therapie und Tod: Das Leben der Dichterin Anne Sexton, translated
by Barbara
von Bechtolsheim und Silvia Morawetz, Zurich: ArcheVerlag AG, 1993
Italian: Anne Sexton: Una Vita, translated by Claudia Rusconi, Gloria Gordigiani;
poems translated by Stefano De Angelis,
Firenze: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1998.
Portugese: Anne Sexton: A Morte N䯠ɠA Vida, translated by Raul de Sᡂarbosa, S䯼o:p>
Paulo: Editora Siciliano, 1994
Spanish: Anne Sexton, Una Biograf/span>, translated by Roser Berdagu鬠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
Dutch: Maatwerk: Het dubbelleven
van jazzmusicus Billy Tipton, die na zijn dood een
vrouw bleek te zijn, translated by Carla
Benink, Amsterdam: Arena, 1999
German: Er War Eine Frau: Das
Doppelleben des Jazzmusikers Billy Tipton, translated
by Uta
Goridis. M�hen: Piper Verlag Gmbh, 1999
Japanese: forthcoming, Fuso
Publishing Inc
UK: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, London: Virago, 1998
Her Husband: Hughes an
Plath, a Marriage
Books on Tape, unabridged
UK: Her Husband: Hughes an Plath, a Marriage, London: Little, Brown ,
2004
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, Bosotn: 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. 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
Ԕelling
Secrets,ԠThe Seductions of Biography,
ed. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff,
New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 123-129
ԁnne
Sexton,ԠThe 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
Ԑreface,ԍ
Aphorisms, Poems & Tailed Passages, by Fabio Massimo Faggi, San
Francisco: Pince-nez Press, 1998
Ԑoetic Justice for Sylvia Plath,ԠNew York Times, 27 January 1998, p. 26
Ԕhe
Biographer as Investigative Journalist,ԠIRE
Journal, May-June 1998, pp. 9-11
ԉntroduction,ԍ
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf / Everymanӳ Library,
1998, pp vii-xviii
ԉan
McKellan Reads The Odyssey,ԠJoe, vol 1, number 1, June 1999, p. 179
ԓylvia
& Ted, a Potboiler,ԠChronicle of
Higher Education, October 17, 2003, pp. B12-13
Ԕhe
Writing Life: Biographerӳ Dream,ԠWashington
Post Book World, 26 October 2003
ԉn
Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes,ԠTed
Hughes: Alternative Horizons
ed. Joanny Moulin. London: Routledge
/Taylor & Francis Group plc, 2004, pp. 103-110
ԍisremembering
Ted Hughes,ԠThe Ethics of Life Writing,
ed John Paul Eakin. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2004
Ӽu>Vivam:
I Shall Live On,ԠRSL: News from the
Royal Society of Literature, forthcoming 2005
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," "Musꥠdu
Louvre: Mercure Attachant Sa
Talonni鳥," "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
Ԉair,ԍ
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
ԓhe Knew What She WantedԠ(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
Ԓobert
Lowellӳ Life Again, AlasԠ(review of Lost
Puritan, by Paul Mariani), Boston
Globe, 18 September 1994, p.17.
Ԅo
Clothes Reveal the Man?Ԩreview of Sex
and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress, by Anne Hollander), Los Angeles Times Book Review, 25
September 1994, pp.1, 10
Ԕhe
Analyst and Her AppetitesԨreview of Karen
Horney, by Bernard J. Paris), The
Washington Post Book World, 29 January 1995, p. 5
Ԑortrait
of a LadyԠ(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
Ԉelen
Keller's Search for Self-Expression,Ԡ(review of Helen Keller, A Life, by Dorothy Hermann) San Francisco Chronicle Review,
16 August 1998, p. 3
ԗhat
It Means to Be a WomanԠ(review of Woman:
An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 18 April 1999, p. 5
ԁnatomy
of SuicideԠ(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
ԁcocella
Criticizes Catherӳ Critics,Ԡ(review of
Willa Cather and the Politics of
Criticism, by Joan Acocella), San
Francisco Chronicle Review, 2 April
2000, p. 4
ԉn Plathӳ Full Journals, a Lusty Embrace of Lifeԍ
(review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed Karen Kukil), Boston
Globe, 5 November 2000, pp. E 1-2
Ԇootnotes
on Ted and SylviaԠ(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), Stanford, 1993
Pilot
series, Cover to Cover: Conversations
with Writers about Reading. Two 26-minute videos
produced by The Stanford Channel and
televised over Channel 51, spring/summer 1999:
Ԍife Writing,ԠDiane Middlebrook in
conversation with Arnold Rampersad and Tobias
Wolff
Ԍiterary Prizes,ԠDiane Middlebrook in
conversation with Evan Boland and Nicholas
Jenkins
CD-ROM
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
Ԍiterary
Journalism and Literary Scholarship,ԍ
sponsored by the Department of English at the
University of Warwick, 3 November 1995)
WORK IN PROGRESS
A
biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be published by Viking / Putnam, 2008
