Diane Middlebrook

Diane Middlebrook

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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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Diane Middlebrook was born on Sunday, 16 April 1939 in Pocatello, Idaho USA. She was best known as a writer. Middlebrook's country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Saturday, 15 December 2007 in San Francisco, California, United States at the age of 68. Her zodiac star sign was Aries.

You can find people similar to Diane Middlebrook by visiting our lists American women biographers and 20th-century American biographers.

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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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