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Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts
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Warren Syliva's brother was born April of 1935
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While living in Winthrop, eight-year-old Plath published her first poem in the Boston Herald's children's section
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In 1942 her mother found a job as a teacher and purchased a house in Wellesley, Massachusetts, a respectable, middle-class, educational community that also influenced her life and values. Sylvia attened Simth College.
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she showed early promise as an artist, winning an award for her paintings from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1947.
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Her first story, "And Summer Will Not Come Again," was published in Seventeen magazine in August 1950
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August 24th 1953 Sylvia took to many pills more than the doctor prescribed and fell into a coma then attempted suicide
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The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath.
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Syliva married Ted Hughes in London, England in June 1956.
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Sylvia took a job as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital and in the evening took creative writing seminars.
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Plath and Hughes traveled across Canada and the United States, staying at the Yaddo artist colony in New York State in late 1959.
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Frieda's birth is on 1 April 1960. Frieda is Sylvia's first child.
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Plath and her husband were invited as writers-in-residence to Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York, where they lived and worked for two months. It was here that Plath completed many of the poems collected in The Colossus (1960), her first volume of poems.
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In 1961, the couple rented their flat at Chalcot Square to Assia and David Wevill. Ted was immediately struck with the beautiful Assia, as she was with him
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Nicholas, Sylvia's second child was born. Sylvia's second child commetted suicide later on in his life.
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They found her dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the kitchen, with her head in the oven, having sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with wet towels and cloths. At approximately 4:30 a.m., Plath had placed her head in the oven, with the gas turned on.
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Her grave is found at Heptonstall Church, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Her novel The Bell Jar (1963) was published by Ted Hughes. After Sylvia died he wanted people to remeber her. So he published The Bell Jar in honor of her.
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In 1982, she won a Pulitzer Prize. The prize was awarded for her poems.The Collected Poems was the book that won the award.
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On March 16, 2009, Hughes hanged himself in his home in Fairbanks, Alaska. According to his sister Frieda he had been depressed.
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Frieda is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions. She still lives in England at the age of 52.
