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 death in 1963. The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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 9,764,846 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Sylvia Plath is the 439th most popular writer (up from 476th in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from United States (up from 442nd in 2019) and the 45th 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 439 out of 5,794. Before her are Kurt Vonnegut, Alexander Pope, Heinrich von Kleist, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Joseph Brodsky. After her are Ken Follett, Baldassare Castiglione, Tom Clancy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Ilya Ehrenburg.
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 433
1688 - 1744
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 434
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 435
1636 - 1711
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 436
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 437
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 438
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 439
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 440
1478 - 1529
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 441
1947 - 2013
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 442
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 443
1170 - 1220
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 444
1891 - 1967
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 445
Among people born in 1932, Sylvia Plath ranks 23. Before her are Anthony Perkins, Glenn Gould, Dian Fossey, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Fernando Botero, and Little Richard. After her are Víctor Jara, Roy Scheider, Camilo Cienfuegos, Miriam Makeba, Ted Kennedy, and Michel Legrand. Among people deceased in 1963, Sylvia Plath ranks 18. Before her are Ngo Dinh Diem, Nâzım Hikmet, Paul Hindemith, Abd el-Krim, Francis Poulenc, and Yasujirō Ozu. After her are Theodor Heuss, Thích Quảng Đức, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Carmen Amaya, and Theodore von Kármán.
1932 - 1992
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 17
1932 - 1982
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 18
1932 - 1985
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 19
1932 - 2001
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 20
1932 - Present
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 21
1932 - 2020
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 22
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 23
1932 - 1973
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 24
1932 - 2008
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 25
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 26
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 27
1932 - 2009
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 28
1932 - 2019
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 29
1901 - 1963
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 12
1902 - 1963
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 13
1895 - 1963
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 14
1882 - 1963
HPI: 75.93
Rank: 15
1899 - 1963
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 16
1903 - 1963
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 17
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 18
1884 - 1963
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 19
1897 - 1963
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 20
1883 - 1963
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 21
1884 - 1963
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 22
1913 - 1963
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 23
1881 - 1963
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 24
Among people born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 436 out of 15,968. Before her are Glen Campbell (1936), Black Dahlia (1924), Crazy Horse (1840), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Lauren Bacall (1924), and Terry Gilliam (1940). After her are Jennifer Aniston (1969), Stanley Cohen (1922), Frank Abagnale (1948), Tom Clancy (1947), Julianne Moore (1960), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947).
1936 - 2017
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 430
1924 - 1947
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 431
1840 - 1877
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 432
1894 - 1956
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 433
1924 - 2014
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 434
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 435
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 436
1969 - Present
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 437
1922 - 2020
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 438
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 439
1947 - 2013
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 440
1960 - Present
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 441
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 442
Among writers born in United States, Sylvia Plath ranks 45. Before her are Philip Roth (1933), Alvin Toffler (1928), Gertrude Stein (1874), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Thomas Wolfe (1900), and Kurt Vonnegut (1922). After her are Tom Clancy (1947), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), William S. Burroughs (1914), Louisa May Alcott (1832), T. S. Eliot (1888), and Theodore Dreiser (1871).
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 39
1928 - 2016
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 40
1874 - 1946
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 41
1804 - 1864
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 42
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 43
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 44
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 45
1947 - 2013
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 46
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 47
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 48
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 49
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 50
1871 - 1945
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 51