New York: Harper Collins, (2013). First edition - Based on interviews with others and on previously unexamined sources, this is a detailed look at a young Sylvia Plath and the month that would lay the groundwork for her novel, The Bell Jar. "In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselles annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plaths words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life." Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Notes, bibliography. 262 pp.