Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook (April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007) was an American biographer, poet, and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University. She is best known for critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath (along with Plath's husband Ted Hughes), and jazz musician Billy Tipton. Middlebrook was preparing a biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be published in 2008. Her death brought that project to a close.
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Date of birth | 16 April 1939
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Place of birth | Pocatello, Idaho USA
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Date of death | 15 December 2007
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Age | 68 (age at death)
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Place of death | San Francisco, California, United States
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Occupation | university professor, author, poet
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Diane Middlebrook is known for her role in the documentary No Ordinary Man (2020) as Self.
She is also known for her role in the TV series Biography (1987) as Self.
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