![]() During her junior year, she won a prestigious guest editorship at Mademoiselle magazine, and spent a month in New York City. ![]() She attended Smith College in Northampton, MA, funded by the novelist Olive Higgins Prouty. Her first national publication in the Christian Science Monitor was printed following her graduation. In 1942, the Plath family moved to 26 Elmwood Road in Wellesley, MA, where Plath attended Bradford Senior High School and graduated in 1950. This event greatly impacted her life, and many of her works deal with the loss of her father, such as her poem, “Electra on Azalea Path,” written after visiting her father’s grave. Otto Plath died of complications from diabetes a few days after Plath’s eighth birthday. Plath began keeping a journal at age 11, and also began painting at this time. This began Plath’s lifelong career of writing and publishing, and throughout her life she won multiple awards for her poetry and prose. ![]() At the age of eight, Sylvia published her first poem in the children’s section of the Boston Herald. In 1936, the Plath family moved from 24 Prince Street in Jamaica Plain, MA, to 92 Johnson Avenue in Winthrop, MA. Her brother, Warren Plath, was born in 1935. Her father was a professor of biology and a German immigrant who studied bees, and published the 1934 work, Bumblebees and Their Ways. Sylvia Plath was an American poet born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, to Otto Emil Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath. ![]()
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