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Date of Birth
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16-April-1939
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Place of Birth
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Pocatello
(Bannock County, Idaho, Power County, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook, Diane W. Middlebrook
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Profession
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Writer, Poet, Biographer, Teacher
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Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook 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, 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.
Middlebrook held no illusions about the difficulties facing a biographer. In an interview on her professional life, she said "With a biography there is no straight line; all is muddled. You don't know what you know, you don't know what you don't know; if you find anything you make a note about it because some day it may find its partner. You have to have very good ways of keeping track of what you have found and where you have put it."
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