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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 The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Plath has received more than 13,774,122 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Sylvia Plath is the 413th most popular writer (down from 396th in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from United States (up from 402nd in 2019) and the 38th 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

Among writers, Sylvia Plath ranks 413 out of 7,302. Before her are Dan Brown, René Guénon, Michel Houellebecq, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Alfred de Musset, and Qu Yuan. After her are Thomas Bernhard, Patrick Modiano, Ivar Aasen, Savitribai Phule, Heinrich Mann, and John Keats.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sylvia Plath ranks 20. Before her are Luc Montagnier, Miriam Makeba, Fernando Botero, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Víctor Jara, and Anouk Aimée. After her are François Englert, Dian Fossey, Roh Tae-woo, Glenn Gould, Anthony Perkins, and Anatoliy Solovianenko. Among people deceased in 1963, Sylvia Plath ranks 18. Before her are C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, Yasujirō Ozu, Nâzım Hikmet, Theodor Heuss, and Francis Poulenc. After her are Paul Hindemith, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Thích Quảng Đức, and Abd al-Karim Qasim.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 389 out of 20,380. Before her are Henry James (1843), Angela Davis (1944), Ryan O'Neal (1941), Dan Brown (1964), Ruth Handler (1916), and Edward Drinker Cope (1840). After her are Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian De Palma (1940), Anthony Kiedis (1962), Martin Sheen (1940), Jimmy Wales (1966), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 38. Before her are Mario Puzo (1920), Paul Auster (1947), O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), and Dan Brown (1964). After her are Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Susan Sontag (1933), Jack Kerouac (1922), and Eugene O'Neill (1888).

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