Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, one of the most acclaimed American writers of the twentieth century, was born on 27 October 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her writing was intensely autobiographical, often dealing with her troubled relationship with her father, who died when she was eight, as well as her mental illness, which she struggled with throughout her life until her suicide on 11 February 1963. Her only novel, The Bell Jar (196...