Dr Gail Crowther is the author of Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker in Hollywood, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton and The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath. She is also the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. She divides her time between the north of England and London.