Paul Alexander

Paul Alexander is the editor of Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath and the author of Rough Magic, a biography of Plath, and Edge, a one-woman play about Plath. Among his other books, Salinger, a biography of J.D. Salinger, was the basis of a documentary that appeared on American Masters on PBS. He has published articles and reviews in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, among many others. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and Hunter College in New York City.