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Sylvia Plath (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Otto and Aurelia Plath on October 27, 1932. Her father, whose distorted and terrifying image dominates so much of her work, was a Polish German who taught at Boston University and whose beekeeping provided another central symbol for his daughter's poetry. Her mother, of Austrian descent, was an educated woman who later taught at the college level. Warren Plath, Sylvia's only sibling, was born on April 27, 1935.
For most of Plath's early childhood her family lived in Winthrop, a seaside town near Boston, and...
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