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Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. Path is best known as a poet. Her poem “Daddy” is probably her most famous, and draws upon the relationship she had with her strict father who died when path was only eight. Plath suffered from depression which in 1953 led to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. However, Plath a gifted student and she graduated from Smith College in 1955 and moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, can be read as semi-autobiographical; describing the pain she suffered in trying to marry her talent with her home life. In 1963 Plath committed suicide.

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	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath, Frances Mccullough Average rating: (read by 209 members) "The Bell Jar" chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even...
	Ariel by Sylvia Plath Average rating: (read by 16 members) A collection of the last poems written by the author before her death at the age of thirty.
	The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil Average rating: (read by 7 members) For the first time in publication are the complete, uncensored journals of poet Sylvia Plath that she kept during the last 12 years of her life. Sixty percent of this book is material that has never been made public before, and more fully reveals Plath's personal and literary struggles. Photos.