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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar,” and her poetry collections “The Colossus and Other Poems” and “Ariel.” She became the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously.
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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Ma
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Sylvia Plath, a renowned poet and writer, was born in 1932 in Massachusetts, USA. She had a passion for reading and writing from a young age. Sylvia’s poems were know
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Plath, Sylvia
| Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath, was a German born entomologist and biology professor at Boston University. Aurelia Schober, her mother, was approximately twenty years younger than her husband; they had met at Boston University where Otto was professor and she was studying towards her Master’s grad in teaching. Read more about Sylvia Plath's birthplace |
| Otto, still teaching at Boston University, had to commute using a boat, a bus and a trolley to get to work from Winthrop. The family home was closer to the sea now and Plath became familiar with its beauty and tranquillity but also its ferocity. The change of scenery was certainly an influence on the young writer. |
| Otto’s health began to diminish shortly after the birth of Warren, mistaking his illness for lung
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