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Sylvia Plath
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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
— Ch. 1, Opening line
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
- Fame70.7
- Momentum0.6
- United States rank#237
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- Fame70.7
- Momentum0.6
- United States rank#237
- Writers rank#131
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Lived 1932–1963, aged 31United States
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Updated 2026-06-09
She turned her depression, her marriage, and her unraveling into a new kind of poetry—raw, direct, unsparing—then died at thirty, one month after her only novel appeared. The work that made her a Pulitzer winner arrived eighteen years after her suicide.
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Born in Boston in 1932, Plath graduated from Smith College and won a Fulbright to Cambridge, where she met and married poet Ted Hughes in 1956. After a brief return to the States—including a seminar with Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton that crystallized the confessional style—she moved back to England in 1959. Her first collection, The Colossus, came in 1960; by then she had two children and a marriage fraying under what unpublished letters to her therapist later revealed as physical and emotional abuse. She'd fought severe depression and brutal early electroconvulsive treatments for years. In 1…
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Sylvia Plath
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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
— Ch. 2
Sylvia Plath
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
— Ch. 2
Sylvia Plath
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What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?
— "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" (1962), a radio play published in 1968
Sylvia Plath
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So many of us! So many of us! We are shelves, we areTables, we are meek, We are edible, Nudgers and shoversIn spite of ourselves.
— "Mushrooms"
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