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Linda Wagner-Martin

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August 18, 1936

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Linda Wagner-Martin is the Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Over a teaching career spanning 53 years, she taught at Wayne State University, Michigan State University, and UNC, while authoring and editing more than 55 books. Her work includes biographies of major literary figures such as Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelou, along with studies like A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present and The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism. After retiring in 2011, she continued publishing extensively. Wagner-Martin’s contributions have earned her prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowshi ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 19,750 ratings · 2,107 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sylvia Plath: A Biography 3.96 avg rating — 1,549 ratings — published 1987 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible: A Reader's Guide 4.29 avg rating — 297 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life 3.68 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties 3.56 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Essays on The Sun Also Rises (The American Novel) 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Book of Women's Writing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I loved before I met him, a large, hulking, healthy Adam ... with a voice like the thunder of God — a singer, story-teller, lion and world-wanderer, a vagabond who will never stop. She”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

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“If the heart was fragile, like a porcelain cup, and a great loss shattered it, all the time and kindness in the world couldn’t hide the ugly cracks. Once the precious liquid of love had seeped away, you were left dry. Dry and empty. Echoing”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

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“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

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