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Sylvia Plath

1932 - 1963

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Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) 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, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Plath is the 391st most popular writer (up from 413th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from United States (down from 389th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Writer.

Sylvia Plath is most famous for her novel The Bell Jar, which was published in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who is slowly going insane.

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Among writers, Sylvia Plath ranks 391 out of 7,302. Before her are Alphonse de Lamartine, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Julio Cortázar, Auguste Escoffier, Cornelius Nepos, and Elena Ferrante. After her are Paul Éluard, Octavio Paz, Enheduanna, Joseph Roth, Christopher Marlowe, and Giosuè Carducci.

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Among people born in 1932, Sylvia Plath ranks 19. Before her are Cesare Maldini, Luc Montagnier, Roh Tae-woo, Abebe Bikila, Anouk Aimée, and Peter O'Toole. After her are Miriam Makeba, Fernando Botero, François Englert, Glenn Gould, Raisa Gorbacheva, and Tiny Tim. Among people deceased in 1963, Sylvia Plath ranks 18. Before her are C. S. Lewis, Ngo Dinh Diem, Thích Quảng Đức, Francis Poulenc, Abd el-Krim, and Theodor Heuss. After her are Paul Hindemith, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Yasujirō Ozu, Józef Gosławski, Nâzım Hikmet, and Carmen Amaya.

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Among people born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 464 out of 20,380. Before her are Millard Fillmore (1800), David Rockefeller (1915), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Joe Dassin (1938), Joseph Murray (1919), and Oliver Hardy (1892). After her are Melinda Gates (1964), Kurt Cobain (1967), Ella Fitzgerald (1917), James B. Sumner (1887), Eminem (1972), and Harry Nilsson (1941).

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Among writers born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 41. Before her are J. D. Vance (1984), O. Henry (1862), Ivanka Trump (1981), Henry Miller (1891), Coen brothers (null), and Margaret Mitchell (1900). After her are Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Jack Kerouac (1922), and Gertrude Stein (1874).

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