Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was most famous as a poet. She was also a novelist, short story writer, and an essayist.

Sylvia is known for The Bell, the semi-autobiographical novel describing her struggle with depression. Throughout her life since the age of 11, Plath had been keeping a diary and kept her journals until her suicide on February 11th, 1963. Once Sylvia started her freshman year at Smith College in 1950, she began writing the adulthood of her diaries. Frances McCullough and her husband Ted Hughes published her diaries as The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Later the project was passed onto Freida and Nicholas, who passed it onto Karen Kukil. The final published version is called "The Unabridged Jornals of Sylvia Plath", and in this book was her dark thoughts and her constant struggle with depression.

On the morning of February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath took her own life by placing her head in an oven with the gas turned on. Even though her journals hinted at her sad and painful life, many were still shocked that she would take her own life.

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