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Sylvia Plath
Later life
In 1982, she became the first person to win a Posthumous Pulitzer prize
She was a gifted poet, although troubled, and was known for her confessional style of poetry and other works
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In 1963 she wrote "The Bell Jar" which was her only novel, which was based on her life and her struggles with mental breakdowns.
She also wrote the poems that would make the collection "Ariel", which was published after her death
Early life
At the age of 9, Sylvia published her first poem called "Poem" in the Boston Herald, in 1941
At the age of 12, her IQ was measured at 160, which is well above what is considered to be a genius (anything above 140)
In 1944, she had more work published in her local newspaper and on average was writing a poem a day at school.
During her teens, she was an avid pacifist against the korean war and called the atomic bomb a "sin"
She continued to work on a farm, doing manual labour which is later echoed in her poem "bitter strawberries"
Ted Hughes
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Welcomed their first child Frieda and two years later, Nicolas
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Birth and death
Sylvia was born on October 27th, 1932
She was born is Boston, Massachusetts
Plath killed herself in 1963, after a long depressive episode
She was 30, and died by sticking her head into a gas oven, succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning while her children Nicholas and Frieda slept.February 11, 1963
She had sealed the rooms between her and her children with tape, towels and cloth to ensure their safety.