TWA Poet: Sylvia Plath

1932 - 1963

It’s the birthday of poet Sylvia Plath, born in Boston (1932). She was an excellent student and she went to Smith College with the help of a scholarship endowed by the writer Olive Higgins Prouty. One summer during college, she was chosen to be a guest editor for Mademoiselle magazine. She was only 20 years old and she had already been published in Seve…