Your readers will by now be bored senseless by the assertions and counter-assertions provoked by my biography of Ted Hughes. I had intended to write nothing further in public,and simply to let readers finish the book and make up their own minds. But William Wootten’s article approximately Sylvia Plath and Al Alvarez (Questions surround account of Plath and Alvarez liaison in unusual Ted Hughes biography, 22 October) casts aspersions on the integrity of my principal informant, or Ted Hughes’s devoted sister,Olwyn. Related: Questions surround account of Plath and Alvarez liaison in unusual Ted Hughes biography Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com