Sylvia Plath
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was primarily a poet, and most famously a confessional poet, although she also wrote a novel, a radio play, short stories and a book for children. She is best known for the poems she wrote in the last eighteen months that she lived. Her life story, complete with her suicide at the age of thirty, tends to overshadow her literary achievement, although critics of recent decades have made strides towards preserving her literary contribution and promoting its value.
- BirthName: Sylvia Plath
- Married: HughesBecause of Ted Hughes' role as literary executor to's estate, he and his sister Olwyn exerted as much control over published biographies as possible, and suppressed some of Plath's journals and letters from the public domain. Even since the publication in 2000 of the complete surviving journals, there remain lacunae in the Plath biography.