Sylvia PLATH

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Author, Poet

AmericanBorn Sylvia PLATH

American poet, novelist, and short-story writer

Born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA , United States

Died on February 11, 1963 in London, England

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Plath was born in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath (1906–1994), was a first-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Germany. Plath's father was an entomologist and was professor of biology and German at Boston University; he also authored a book about bumblebees. Plath's mother was approximately 21 years younger than her husband. They met while she was earning a master's degree in teaching and took one of his courses. Otto had become alienated from his family after choosing not to become a Lutheran minister, ...   Plath was born in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath (1906–1994), was a first-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Germany. Plath's father was an entomologist and was professor of biology and German at Boston University; he also authored a book about bumblebees. Plath's mother was approximately 21 years younger than her husband. They met while she was earning a master's degree in teaching and took one of his courses. Otto had become alienated from his family after choosing not to become a Lutheran minister, as his grandparents had intended him to be.



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