Varsity
Vendler, Helen Hennessey,
"Verbal Calisthenics" (Plath)
Vicky, Cousin (Hughes's cousin)
Vigors, Mrs.
"Virgin in a Tree" (Plath)
Vogue
Volkening, Henry
Wagner, Janet
Wagner, Robert F., Jr.
Wain, John,
"Walk to Withens, A" (Plath)
Ward, Edna
Warren, Ken
Warren, William Marshall
Washington Post
"Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows" (Plath)
Weaver, Polly
Webb, Dr.
Weeks, Edward,
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Weissbort, Daniel
Weissbort, George
Weller, Sue
Wellesley, Mass.
description of
family structure changes in
move to
SP's transition period in
SP's visits to
Wellesley College
Wellesley Townsman
Welty, Eudora
Wertz, Dick
Wetzel, Margaret, see Plath, Margaret
Wetzel
Wevill, Alexandra Tatiana Elise (Shura)
Wevill, AssiaGutmann
Hughes's affair with
pregnancy and childbirth of
SP's suicide and
suicide of
Wevill, David,
suicide attempt of
Wheeler, William Morton
White, Eric
White, R. H.
"White Phlox" (Plath)
Whitman, Walt
Whitman, William Key
"Whitsun" (Plath)
"Widow Mangada, The" (Plath)
Wilbur, Richard
Willey, Basil
William Heinemann
Ariel and,
Bell Jar and,
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William Carlos
Williams College
"Wind" (Hughes)
"Wintering" (Plath)
"Winter Ship, The" (Plath)
"Winter's Tale, A" (Plath)
"Winter Trees" (Plath)
Winter Trees (Plath)
"Winter Words" (Plath)
Winthrop, Mass.,
hurricane in
Town Cemetery in
Winthrop Hospital
Winthrop Junior High School
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
"Wishing Box, The" (Plath)
"Wish upon a Star, A" (Plath)
Wober, Mallory
Wodwo (Hughes)
Woman's Day
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Wood, Franklin
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Woods, Jeanne
Woody, Melvin
Woolf, Virginia
"Words" (Plath)
"Words Heard by Accident, over the
Phone" (Plath)
"World of Books, The" (BBC show)
World Publishing Company
World War
World War II,
Wright, Kenneth
Wunderlich, Ray
"Wuthering Heights" (Plath)
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
Yaddo
Yale Series of Younger Poets
SP's submissions to
Yale University, SP's visits to
"Years" (Plath)
"Years Later" (Murphy)
Yeats, William Butler
house of
Yorkshire
"You're" (Plath)
"Youth's Appeal for Peace" (Plath)
"Youth's Plea for World Peace, A"(Plath and Perry Norton)
"Zoo Keeper's Wife" (Plath)
Paul Alexander is the editor of Ariel Ascending: Writings about Sylvia Plath in addition to biographies of James Dean, Andy Warhol, J.D. Salinger, and John McCain. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, the Village Voice, the New York Observer, Cosmopolitan, Interview, Out, Travel Leisure, Rolling Stone, and the Guardian. He is the author and director of "Edge" (2003) a critically acclaimed one-woman show about Sylvia Plath. A former Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Mr. Alexander is currently both co-hosting a national radio show and directing a documentary about John Kerry and Vietnam. He lives in New York City.
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