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Feb 5, 2023 · Sylvia Plath died by suicide at the age of 30 on February 11, 1963, following a barrage of literary rejections and her husband's infidelity. Bettmann/Getty Images Sylvia Plath was just 30 years old when she died by suicide in London.
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Otto Plath died on November 5, 1940, a week and a half after Sylvia's eighth birthday, [8] of complications following the amputation of a foot due to untreated diabetes. He had become ill shortly after a close friend died of lung cancer.
Oct 27, 1999 · Her poem “Daddy” and several others explore her conflicted relationship with her father, Otto Plath, who died when she was age eight. In 1963, after this burst of productivity, she took her own life.
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- Sylvia Plath was an American writer whose best-known works, including the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly expr...
- Sylvia Plath published her first poem at age eight. She entered and won many literary contests. She first sold a poem, to The Christian Science Mon...
- Sylvia Plath entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1951. She achieved considerable artistic, academic, and social success, but she also suffere...
- In 1956 Sylvia Plath married the English poet Ted Hughes; they had two children. The couple separated in 1962 after Hughes had an affair. Hughes co...
- The Collected Poems, which included many previously unpublished poems, appeared in 1981 and received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, which made...
Oct 27, 2021 · The best-known of the so-called ‘confessional poets’ – a loose fellowship of writers who drew from deep personal experience for their work and whose number included Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton – Plath took her own life at the shockingly young age of 30. Who was Sylvia Plath?
Early life. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932, to Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father, a professor of biology (the study of plant and animal life) at Boston University and a well-respected authority on bees, died when she was eight years old.
Dec 11, 2019 · On the morning of February 11, 1963, the nurse arrived at the apartment and could not get inside. When she finally had a workman help her enter, they found Plath dead. She was 30 years old.
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Though she's considered a pioneer of the confessional poetry style, Sylvia Plath was not widely famous when she died by suicide in 1963 at age 30. But her legacy has long outgrown her...
