Sylvia Plath

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Name: Sylvia Plath
Born: 10/27/1932
Died: 02/11/1963 (30 years old)
Occupation: Poet, novelist, short story writer

Sylvia Plath (/plæθ/; October 27, 1932– February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Awards: Fulbright Scholarship, awd,, 1955, title=Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea, awd,, 1982, title=The Collected Poems (posthumously)

Alias: Victoria Lucas

Genre: Poetry, fiction, short story

Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Death Place: London, England

Source: Wikipedia

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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
Sylvia Plath

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
Sylvia Plath

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Sylvia Plath

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Sylvia Plath