The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill

Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture.

The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927-1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill offers an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick is an IUPUI Chancellor’s Professor of English, IU Bicentennial Professor (2019-2021), affiliate faculty member in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and director of the Office of Student Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus.

Peter K. Steinberg is an archivist and the author of nearly two dozen essays on Sylvia Plath. He is coeditor of the two-volume Letters of Sylvia Plath.