http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4379.Sylvia_Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The plot parallels Plath's experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.
Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry initiated by Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass.
...Plath suffered from severe depression and underwent a period of psychiatric hospitalization. She graduated from Smith in 1955 and went to Cambridge, in England, on a Fulbright fellowship. She met and married the English poet Ted Hughes in 1956. For the following two years she was an instructor in English at Smith College.
In 1960, her first collection of poems appeared as The Colossus. She also gave birth to a daughter and a son.
Plath took her own life on the morning of February 11, 1963. ...she completely sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with "wet towels and cloths." Plath then placed her head in the oven while the gas was turned on.
It has been suggested that Plath's suicide attempt was too precise and coincidental, and that she had not intended to succeed in killing herself. ... read more at Good Reads.
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
