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Oct 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
October 27 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer is born. (d. 1963)
She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, and...
...The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.
