Sylvia Plath: Interesting Facts About ‘The Bell Jar’ Author

The life experiences of Sylvia Plath drove direct impact on her writings. Most of what is known about the American novelist and short story writer comes from her journals and letters that were published post her death. Although the general notion, public has about Plath and her life is centred on her clinical depression and her agonizing marriage to Ted Hughes, but her life extended far beyond the illness. The poet’s life was indeed painful and it was palpable in her emotional and electric works. Most of her readers continue to figure the larger picture of the author’s life, especially her all-too-early death.

After spending most of her adult life, clinically depressed, she committed suicide, leaving the world at an age of just 30. October 27 marks the birth anniversary of Plath and this year we remember the iconic figure in 20th century literature by going through some facts, lesser-known.