Letters Home Correspondence 19501963 Author:Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath This book is a selection of Sylvia Plath's intimate correspondence with her family from the time she entered Smith College. It may seem extraordinary that someone who died when she was only thirty years old left behind 696 letters written to her family between the beginning of her college years in 1950 and her death early in February 1963. "What... more » comes across in these letters is a survivor, who knew that to be a writer means discipline, indefatigable commitment, and passion for hard work. By no means all is told here, but the features emerge of a real, not a mythic, woman artist." --Adrienne Rich« less