1932 - 1963
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. 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 (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as 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 The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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 11,057,619 page views. Her biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Sylvia Plath is the 399th most popular writer (up from 439th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from United States (up from 436th in 2019) and the 41st 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, Sylvia Plath ranks 399 out of 5,755. Before her are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Apollonius of Rhodes, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Sergei Yesenin, Cornelius Nepos, and Pietro Aretino. After her are Paula Hitler, Edward Said, Arion, Lysias, Paul Auster, and Propertius.
1888 - 1970
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 393
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 394
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 395
1895 - 1925
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 396
100 BC - 25 BC
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 397
1492 - 1556
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 398
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 399
1896 - 1960
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 400
1935 - 2003
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 401
700 BC - 660 BC
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 402
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 403
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 404
50 BC - 14 BC
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 405
Among people born in 1932, Sylvia Plath ranks 20. Before her are Peter O'Toole, Roh Tae-woo, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Anouk Aimée, Glenn Gould, and Dian Fossey. After her are Fernando Botero, Víctor Jara, Pat Morita, Raisa Gorbacheva, Gerhard Richter, and Miriam Makeba. Among people deceased in 1963, Sylvia Plath ranks 18. Before her are C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, Paul Hindemith, Nâzım Hikmet, Francis Poulenc, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. After her are Theodor Heuss, Thích Quảng Đức, Yasujirō Ozu, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Rajendra Prasad, and Abd al-Karim Qasim.
1932 - 2013
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 14
1932 - 2021
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 15
1932 - 2001
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 16
1932 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 17
1932 - 1982
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 18
1932 - 1985
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 19
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 20
1932 - Present
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 21
1932 - 1973
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 22
1932 - 2005
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 23
1932 - 1999
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 24
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 25
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 26
1898 - 1963
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 12
1882 - 1963
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 13
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 14
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 15
1899 - 1963
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 16
1883 - 1963
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 17
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 18
1884 - 1963
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 19
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 20
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 21
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 22
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 23
1914 - 1963
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 24
Among people born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 402 out of 18,182. Before her are Brian De Palma (1940), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Dianne Wiest (1946), Paul Ekman (1934), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Franklin Pierce (1804). After her are Howard Gardner (1943), J. Paul Getty (1892), Stevie Wonder (1950), Joseph Smith (1805), Paul Walker (1973), and Eminem (1972).
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 396
1957 - 2012
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 397
1946 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 398
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 399
1934 - 2008
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 400
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 401
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 402
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 403
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 404
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 405
1805 - 1844
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 406
1973 - 2013
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 407
1972 - Present
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 408
Among writers born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 41. Before her are O. Henry (1862), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Truman Capote (1924), Susan Sontag (1933), Henry James (1843), and Dan Brown (1964). After her are Paul Auster (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), Tom Clancy (1947), Gertrude Stein (1874), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Tennessee Williams (1911).
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 35
1789 - 1851
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 36
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 37
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 38
1843 - 1916
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 39
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 40
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 41
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 42
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 43
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 44
1874 - 1946
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 45
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 46
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 47