What is Diane Middlebrook?
'''Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook''' (April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007)<ref>[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/middlebrook-010908.html 'Obituary of Diane Middlebrook', Stanford University website], accessed 05 September 2011</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] [[biography|biographer]], [[poetry|poet]], and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at [[Stanford University]]. She was best known for writing biographies of poets [[Anne Sexton]] and [[Sylvia Plath]] (along with Plath's husband [[Ted Hughes]]), and jazz musician [[Billy Tipton]]. She was born in [[Pocatello, Idaho|Pocatello]], [[Idaho]]. Middlebrook died in [[San Francisco]], [[California]] from [[liposarcoma]], aged 68. == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/index.shtml DianeMiddlebrook.com, the author's personal web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050213044021/http://dianemiddlebrook.com/index.shtml |date=2005-02-13 }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Middlebrook, Diane}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:Educators from Idaho]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in San Francisco]] [[Category:Deaths from liposarcoma]] [[Category:Writers from Idaho]] {{us-bio-stub}}