Gail Crowther is a writer, researcher, and academic. She is the author of Dorothy Parker in Hollywood; Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton; The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath, and the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England and London.