Author Archive: Caroline Atkins

What A Hazard A Letter Is: The Strange Destiny Of The Unsent Letter

I’ve always been fascinated by letters. Listening to Sylvia Plath’s being read on Radio 4 reminds me just how powerful they are, how swiftly they take us back into former lives – our own and other people’s. And for biographers, letters are like buried treasure. The American author and journalist Janet Malcolm describes them as […]