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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- What do Anne Sexton and the 9/11 Commission Have in Common?The 911 Commission Report has been nominated for a National Book Award for 2004, non-fiction category. The chairman of the committee that made the indecent nomination is Diane Wood Middlebrook, famed for her biography of Anne Sexton. Sexton was mind-controlled; Dr. Martin Orne was her psychiatrist. Orne happily gave tapes of therapy sessions with Sexton to Middlebrook to use in her biography. The mind control element did not come out in her book, of course, which received universal fanfare from media Mockingbirds who knew precisely how to spin the book - away, as James Carroll notes below, from psychiatric abuses. Now, the controversy over Dr. Orne¹s seeming violation of confidentiality gave the appearance of openness, a sleight-of-hand calculated to create a public stir, sell books and conceal the nature of Sexton¹s relationship with Orne. The mind control is reflected in her poetry, I¹ve heard. From mind control to 911, one cover-up to another. Middlebrook¹s resumé is attached; University of Washington is certainly significant - a number of the board members of the CIA¹s False Memory Syndrome Foundation were from this school. And Yale, well... Of particular interest to me was her marriage to a Lyman. Anne Sexton's husband was in the Navy ... "Lyman" is the name, as in Ray Lyman Wilbur, the notorious Stanford eugenicist. No wonder she was suicidal ... - AC --------------------- Diane Wood Middlebrook Book Review, Fall 1992 Ploughshares rev. of Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook Recommended by James Carroll ... Now an acclaimed biography of Anne Sexton has appeared. When Diane Wood Middlebrook's Anne Sexton: A Biography was published in the fall of 1991, it generated ENORMOUS PUBLICITY, a RARE THING for a work about a poet, even a popular one like Sexton. The notice included a FRONT-PAGE ARTICLE in The New York Times. Of course, as one might expect in present-day America, what drew such wide attention was not poetry or fine literary biography, but the whiff of scandal. The main scandal concerned one of Middlebrook's sources. Dr. Martin T. Orne, the psychiatrist whose encouragement gave Sexton her vocation, had turned over to Middlebrook tapes he'd made of their therapy sessions. That this violated the sacred tradition of confidentiality did not stop Middlebrook from making liberal use of what the patient had said to her doctor. Because some of the material involved tales of child sexual abuse in which Sexton described herself both as victim (as a child) and as perpetrator (as a parent), some of Sexton's relatives joined the chorus of outraged psychiatrists who denounced both Orne and the book. (Few were heard denouncing either "Dr. Ollie Zweizung," Middlebrook's coy pseudonym for another of Sexton's therapists, who had sex with her during regular sessions, or Dr. Constance Chase, who encouraged her to divorce her husband, leaving her more vulnerable than ever, and who then terminated her treatment.) Of course the Anne Sexton whose poems were so outrageously exhibitionist would have loved the uproar‹all those wagging heads and offended sensibilities. --------------- Updated 08/04 DIANE WOOD MIDDLEBROOK Contact information:1101 Green Street, #1501 San Francisco CA 94109-2012 vox: 415.474.1866 // fax: 415.474.1868 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: www.DianeMiddlebrook.com Education University of Washington, Seattle, 1958-61, AB, 1961 Yale University, MA, 1962; PhD, 1968 Honors and Awards Phi Beta Kappa, 1961 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1961 Albert S. Cook Memorial Prize for Poetry, Yale, 1962 Yale University Fellowships, 1963-5 Danforth Teaching Fellowship, Yale, 1964-5 Academy of American Poets Prize, Yale, 1965 Theron Rockwell Field Prize for doctoral dissertation, Yale, 1968 University Fellow, Stanford, 1975-7 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford, 1977 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1982-3 Fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, 1982-3 Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center, 1983-4 Pew Foundation Faculty Research Grant, Stanford, 1987 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford, 1987 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1988-9 Richard W. Lyman Award for Service to Stanford, Alumni Association, 1989 Fellow of the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio, 1990 Finalist, National Book Award (for Anne Sexton), 1991 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award (for Anne Sexton), 1992 Bay Area Books Reviewers Award, Non-fiction(for Anne Sexton), 1992 Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal, Non-fiction (for Anne Sexton), 1992 Finalist, Lambda Foundation Literary Award (for Suits Me), 1999 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Kenyon College, 1999 Finalist, Bay Area Books Reviewers Award, Non-fiction (for Her Husband), 2004 Honorary Member, Christís College, University of Cambridge, 2004 Advisory Board, Christís Research Institute, 2004- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 2004- Professional Appointments Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University, 1966-73 Visiting Associate Professor, Rutgers University, 1973 Associate Professor of English, Stanford University, 1974-83 Director, Center for Research on Women, Stanford University, 1977-79 Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University, 1979-82 Professor of English, Stanford University, 1983- Chair, Program in Feminist Studies, 1985-88 Howard H. & Jessie T. Watkins University Professor, Stanford, 1985-90 Middlbrook cv 2 Updated 6/04 Professor of English, Stanford University, one-third time: 1990 ñ 2002 Professor of English, Emerita: 1 September 2002 Membership in Professional Organizations Member, Modern Language Association, 1966- Trustee, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 1980-1996; Chair of the Board, 1994 Advisory Board, Kelsey Street Press 1994- Member, Investigative Reporters & Editors, 1995-99 Editorial Board, Chadwyck-Healey LION (Literature Online), 1997-99 Advisory Board, Humanities West (San Francisco), 1997- Member, California Classical Association, 1999- Member, International Association of University Professors of English, 1999-2002 Member, Biographers Club, London, 1999- Member, The Authors Guild, 2001- Member, Commonwealth Club of California, 2002- Publications BOOKS Walt Whitman and Wallace Steven. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974 Worlds Into Words: Understanding Modern Poems, New York: W.W Norton & Co, 1980 Gin Considered as a Demon (poems), Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Elysian Press, 1983 Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the 20th Century (essays), ed. Diane Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1985 Selected Poems of Anne Sexton, ed. with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George,Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988 Anne Sexton, A Biography, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991; New York: Vintage Books, 1992 Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998 Her Husband: Hughes & Plath, a Marriage, New York: Viking Press, 2003 Foreign and other editions of books Anne Sexton: A Biography German: Zwischen Therapie und Tod: Das Leben der Dichterin Anne Sexton, translated by Barbara von Bechtolsheim und Silvia Morawetz, Zurich: ArcheVerlag AG, 1993 Italian: Anne Sexton: Una Vita, translated by Claudia Rusconi, Gloria Gordigiani; poems translated by Stefano De Angelis, Firenze: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1998. Portugese: Anne Sexton: A Morte Não É A Vida, translated by Raul de Sá Barbosa, São Paulo: Editora Siciliano, 1994 Spanish: Anne Sexton, Una Biografía, translated by Roser Berdagué, Barcelona: Circe Ediciones, S.A, 1998 UK: Anne Sexton, A Biography, London: Virago Press, 1991 Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Books on tape: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, unabridged, read by Mary Peiffer, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc, 2000 Middlbrook cv 3 Updated 6/04 Chinese: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, translated by Zhu En-ling, Taipei: Fembooks Publishing Company, 2001 Dutch: Maatwerk: Het dubbelleven van jazzmusicus Billy Tipton, die na zijn dood een vrouw bleek te zijn, translated by Carla Benink, Amsterdam: Arena, 1999 German: Er War Eine Frau: Das Doppelleben des Jazzmusikers Billy Tipton, translated by Uta Goridis. München: Piper Verlag Gmbh, 1999 Japanese: forthcoming, Fuso Publishing Inc UK: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, London: Virago, 1998 Her Husband: Hughes an Plath, a Marriage Books on Tape, unabridged UK: Her Husband: Hughes an Plath, a Marriag, London: Little, Brown , 2004 ARTICLES "David Henderson's Holy Mission" (interview with poet David Henderson), Saturday Review, 9 September 1972, pp. 38-40 "Bound Each to Each" (retrospective review of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg), Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1974, pp. 128- 135; reprinted in Modern Poetry Criticism, 14 vols., ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 1987 "Making Visible the Common World: Walt Whitman and Feminist Poetry," The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 1980, pp. 14-27 "Housewife into Poet: The Apprenticeship of Anne Sexton," The New England Quarterly, Vol. LVI, No. 4, December 1983, pp. 483-503 "Joyce Carol Thomas," Women Writers of the West Coast, ed. Marilyn Yalom, Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1984, pp. 31-39 "The Problem of the Woman Artist: Louise Bogan, 'The Alchemist,'" Critical Essays on Louise Bogan, ed. Martha Collins, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984, pp. 174-180 "Becoming Anne Sexton," The Denver Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 1984, pp. 23- 34; reprinted in Anne Sexton:Telling the Tale, ed. Steven E. Colburn, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988, pp. 7-21 "Poet of Weird Abundance (Anne Sexton)," Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 and Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter, 1985, pp. 293-315; reprinted in Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale, ed. Colburn (op. cit.) pp. 447-470; and excerpted in Critical Essays on Anne Sexton, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989, pp. 72-80 "1957: Anne Sexton's Bedlam," Pequod, special issue on biography/autobiography, No.s 23-24, 1988, pp. 131-142; reprinted in Critical Essays on Anne Sexton, ed. Wagner-Martin (op.cit.), pp. 239-246 "Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute," Sexton: Selected Criticism, ed. Diana Hume George, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 211-220 "Seduction in Anne Sexton's Play Mercy Street," Sexton: Selected Criticism, ed. Diana Hume George (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 19-26 "Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell," Original Essays on Anne Sexton, ed. Frances Bixler, Conway: Central Arkansas University Press, 1988, pp. 5-21 "Foreword," Love Poems, by Anne Sexton, Bosotn: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989 "Postmodernism and the Biographer," Revealing Lives: Gender in Autobiography and Biography, ed. Susan Bell and Marilyn Yalom. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990 Middlbrook cv 4 Updated 6/04 "Spinning Straw into Gold: A Biographer's Story," Stanford Magazine, June 1991, pp. 47-50; reprinted in The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, ed. Dale Salwak. New York: Macmillan, 1996, pp. 86-90 "Psychotherapy as Theme and Influence in the Work of Anne Sexton," Psychotherapy, Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 401-409 "Anne Sexton, James Wright, and the Making of The Awful Rowing Toward God," The Library Chronicle, Vol. 21, No. 1 & 2, 1992, pp. 223-235 "The Ethics of Disclosure," Letters: The Journal of the Royal Society of Literature (London) Autumn 1993, pp. 5-9 "What Was Confessional Poetry?" The Columbia History of American Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 632-649 "Channeling Plath," Mirabella, December 1993, pp. 72-75 "Where All the Ladders Start (Philip Larkin)," Hudson Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 751-756 "Tillie Olsen and Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute," Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fishkin, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 17-23 "Anne Sexton," The Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, pp. 711-712 ìTelling Secrets,î The Seductions of Biography, ed. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff, New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 123-129 ìAnne Sexton,î The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 169: American Poets Since World War II, ed. Joseph Conte, Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1996, pp. 244-53 ìPreface,î Aphorisms, Poems & Tailed Passages, by Fabio Massimo Faggi, San Francisco: Pince-nez Press, 1998 ìPoetic Justice for Sylvia Plath,î New York Times, 27 January 1998, p. 26 ìThe Biographer as Investigative Journalist,î IRE Journal, May-June 1998, pp. 9-11 ìIntroduction,î The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Everymanís Library, 1998, pp vii-xviii ìIan McKellan Reads The Odyssey,î Joe, vol 1, number 1, June 1999, p. 179 ìSylvia & Ted, a Potboiler,î Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2003, pp. B12-13 ìThe Writing Life: Biographerís Dream,î Washington Post Book World, 26 October 2003 ìIn Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes,î Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons ed. Joanny Moulin. London: Routledge /Taylor & Francis Group plc, 2004, pp. 103-110 ìMisremembering Ted Hughes,î The Ethics of Life Writing, ed John Paul Eakin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004 ìVivam: I Shall Live On,î RSL: News from the Royal Society of Literature, forthcoming 2005 POEMS "Aubade," "Maya," The Southern Review, Vol. IX, Winter 1973, pp. 186-87 "Two Poems for Christopher Caudwell, Dead in Spain, 1939," The Southern Review, Vol. XI, Spring 1975, pp. 428-429 "You, Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," "On Jealousy Considered as Health," "Water, Fire, Earth, Air," "The Story of My Life," "Musée du Louvre: Mercure Attachant Sa Talonnière," "Without Selection," "Eating Snow in the Sierras," Sequoia Twentieth Anniversary Issue: Poetry 1956-1976. Stanford, 1976, pp. 53-58 "Cornwall: Vista," Women Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 Middlbrook cv 5 Updated 6/04 (1977, p. 61 "At Yad Va'Shem," The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 14 July 1978, p. 18 "You, Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," reprinted in Networks: An Anthology of Bay Area Women Poets, ed. Carol Simone. Palo Alto: B. Latimer, 1979 "Losing You," ("Aveda") translated into Hebrew by Amos Oz, Shdemot, No. 69. Tel Aviv, 1979, p. 100 "February Afternoon, in a Boat on the Seine," "Losing You," "Later," "Gin Considered as a Demon," "Carl Uncovers a Bed of Wild Strawberries," Worlds Into Words: Understanding Modern Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1980, pp. 121-128 Sequence, Four Episodes in a Contagion of Dreams: "The Contagiousness of Dreams," "Carol's Dream of Diana," "Lost Prince," "To You, Falling Asleep After a Quarrel," The Southern Review, Vol. XVI, Spring 1980, pp. 416-417. Reprinted in Anthology of Magazine Verse Yearbook of American Poetry, 1981 Edition, ed. Stan F. Pater. Beverly Hills: Monitor Book Company, Inc., 1981 "The Deviousness of Objects of Desire," "New Brunswick Station, 12:37 p.m.," Inquiry Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 13 (September 1982, p. 36 "One Woman Looking at Another," set by Conrad Cummings in song cycle Five Songs for HWH, Oberlin, Ohio, November 1985 "After Klee's Geschwister," "Buddhist Prayer Flags from Bhutan," in Sequoia:Centennial Issue, 1986, p.108 "Aspen," Plains Poetry Journal, No. 28 (January 1989, p.40 "November: Pamela's Ghost," The Harbinger, Vol.VII, No.11 (March 1989, p.3 ìHair,î American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century, ed. Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996, pp. 250-251 BOOK REVIEWS "A Modern Thoreau with Nightmares" (review of In Deep: Country Essays, by Maxine Kumin), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 31 May 1987, p. 8 "Forever in Amber" (review of Sylvia Plath, A Biography, by Linda Wagner-Martin), The Nation, Volume 245, Number 18, 28 November 1987, pp. 656-659 "A Novelist's Eye for Poetry" review of Available Light, by Marge Piercy), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 5 June 1988, p. 5 "The Life of a Good Old Girl" (review of Close Connections, Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance, by Ann Waldron), The Hudson Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3, Autumn 1988), pp. 581- 585 "The Enraged Muse" (review of Bitter Fame, A Life of Sylvia Plath, by Anne Stevenson), Times Literary Supplement (London), 27 October 1989, p. 1179 "Western Literature's Underside" (review of Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, by Toni Morrison), Los Angeles Times Book Review, 24 May 1992, pp 2 & 7. "A Journey to Bedlam and Back" (review of Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen), The Washington Post Book World, 25 July 1993, p. 9 Middlbrook cv 6 Updated 6/04 "Son Bathed in Astral Light" (review of My Father's Guru, by Jeffrey Masson), The Independent on Sunday (London), 29 August 1993, p. 26 "The Age Mystique" (review of The Fountain of Age, by Betty Friedan), Los Angeles Times Book Review, 19 September 1993, pp 2, 8. "Channeling Plath" (review of The Silent Woman, by Janet Malcolm), Mirabella, December 1993, pp. 72-75. "Where All the Ladders Start" (review of Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, by Andrew Motion), The Hudson Review, Volume XLVI, Number 4 , Winter 1994, pp. 751-756 ìShe Knew What She Wantedî (review of Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, by Christopher Ogden), The Washington Post Book World, 15 May 1994, p. 2 ìRobert Lowellís Life Again, Alasî (review of Lost Puritan, by Paul Mariani), Boston Globe, 18 September 1994, p.17. ìDo Clothes Reveal the Man?î(review of Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress, by Anne Hollander), Los Angeles Times Book Review, 25 September 1994, pp.1, 10 ìThe Analyst and Her Appetitesî(review of Karen Horney, by Bernard J. Paris), The Washington Post Book World, 29 January 1995, p. 5 ìPortrait of a Ladyî (review of The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Douglass Shand-Tucci), New York Times Book Review, 28 December 1997, p. 6 ìHelen Keller's Search for Self-Expression,î (review of Helen Keller, A Life, by Dorothy Hermann) San Francisco Chronicle Review, 16 August 1998, p. 3 ìWhat It Means to Be a Womanî (review of Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 18 April 1999, p. 5 ìAnatomy of Suicideî (review of Night Falls Fast, by Kay Redfield Jamison, and Where the Roots Reach for Water, by Jeffrey Smith), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 5 December 1999, p. 5 ìAcocella Criticizes Catherís Critics,î (review of Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, by Joan Acocella), San Francisco Chronicle Review, 2 April 2000, p. 4 ìIn Plathís Full Journals, a Lusty Embrace of Lifeî (review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed Karen Kukil), Boston Globe, 5 November 2000, pp. E 1-2 ìFootnotes on Ted and Sylviaî (review of Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared: A Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, by Lucas Myers, and Sylvia and Ted, by Emma Tennant), San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, 20 May 2001, pp. 72, 77 Middlbrook cv 7 Updated 6/04 ELECTRONIC MEDIA Audio "The Sound of Poems," audio tape to accompany Worlds Into Words, Palo Alto: Kelson Enterprises, 1978 Video "Twentieth Century British and American Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Thomas, Crane, Stevens, Roethke" (18 fifty-minute black and white videotape lectures), Stanford, 1977 "Twentieth Century Women's Writing as Critique and Vision: Woolf, Cather, Stein, Hellman, Didion, Lessing, Sexton, Morrison, Rich, Wittig" (19 fifty-minute color videotape lectures), Stanford, 1981 "The Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath," Great Teachers, Great Texts (video series produced by the Stanford Alumni Association with the Stanford Department of English), Stanford, 1993 Pilot series, Cover to Cover: Conversations with Writers about Reading. Two 26-minute videos produced by The Stanford Channel and televised over Channel 51, spring/summer 1999: ìLife Writing,î Diane Middlebrook in conversation with Arnold Rampersad and Tobias Wolff ìLiterary Prizes,î Diane Middlebrook in conversation with Evan Boland and Nicholas Jenkins CD-ROM Finding the Girlfriends: The Biographer as Investigative Journalist (A Multimedia Showcase), designed and programmed with Jay Dempster at the University of Warwick, England, August 1995. (Prepared for presentation at the conference ìLiterary Journalism and Literary Scholarship,î sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Warwick, 3 November 1995) WORK IN PROGRESS A biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be published by Viking / Putnam, 2008 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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