American Literature(15)

•  Sylvia Plath ( 1932 –  1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer.

       Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963 she committed suicide.Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel.
       In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.

•  Anne Sexton ( 1928 –  1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. 

She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life.

 On returning home she put on her mother's old fur coat, removed all her rings, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her garage, and started the engine of her car, committing suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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