American poet, novelist, and short story writer (born 1932)

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.

Born

1932

October 27

Died

1963

Era

1930s

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1932 Born
1963 Died

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312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

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The world in 1932

When Sylvia arrived

april 24 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
april 5 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
august 2 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
august 24 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

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