Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 and rose to prominence as a revered poet of her time. She helped advance confessional poetry and wrote many great poems throughout her lifetime. She was also a novelist remembered for works like “The Bell Jar” and the two poetry collections “Ariel” and “The Colossus and Other Poems.”

Though posthumously, she was even awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982. Despite her brilliance, Plath suffered from life-long mental health concerns. She passed away in 1963 at 30 by suicide. Although Plath famously had clinical depression, some fans were eager to blame her former lover Ted Hughes instead, who’d broken her heart.