BiographyType: Poet and Writter Born: October 27, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, U Died: February 11, 1963 (aged 30), London, Eng Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober, was a master’s student at Boston University when she met Plath’s father, Otto Plath, who was her professor. They were married in January of 1932. Otto taught both German and biology, with a focus on apiology, the study of bees. |
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
-From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.
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