Thanks to Steve for having the vision to connect me to this project and for rekindling my love of Plath. Thanks to Adam for challenging me to expect more of myself and for his guidance with this book. Thanks to Jim for being my first reader and always my best advocate. Thanks to Jack Lienke, without whose help in acquiring photographs and digging up difficult details of research Your Own, Sylvia would be incomplete. I am also very grateful to Karen Kukil and the Smith Collection and to Professor Sylvia Vardell of Texas Women’s University.