Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) American writer best remembered for her post-modernist confessional poetry and her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar about a woman suffering from mental illness published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, a month before she committed suicide.

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Photograph taken at Smith College, Massachusetts circa 1951.