1932
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SYLVIA PLATH, poet/writer was born on this day, in Boston, Massachusetts. While still in her teens she was a gifted student publishing stories and poetry in national magazines, and winning numerous awards.
She attended Smith College, and Newnham College at Cambridge University on scholarships, eventually graduating with high honors in English from Smith College.
During her early years in college, Plath suffered from symptoms of severe depression which eventually lead to her death by suicide in 1963.
In spite of these personal difficulties, Plath became an acclaimed poet and is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry to a higher level of respectability. She is best known for her volume of poetry The Colossus and other Poems published in 1960.
Plath won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1981 for her volume, The Collected Poems. She was the first poet to win the award posthumously.
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To read her complete biography Google her name. To read her poetry log on to poetryfoundation.org , poets.org, and poemhunters.com
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