July 1930-July 1953
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ylvia Plath was bom on 27 October 1932 at 2:10 p.m. in Boston,Massachusetts, to Otto and Aurelia Schober Plath. Her brother Warren was bornon 27 April 1935. They lived at 24 Prince Street, Jamaica Plain, until 1936 whenthe family moved to 92 Johnson Avenue, Winthrop, Massachusetts, to be nearAurelia Plath's parents. Otto Plath died on 5 November 1940 from complicationsof diabetes. In 1942, Sylvia Plath moved to 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley,Massachusetts, with her mother, brother, and maternal grandparents. Sylvia Plath began writing the following journal during the summer of 1950before leaving home for college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Some of theentries are excerpts from letters to friends. Plath matriculated with the class of1954 at Smith College, but did not graduate until June 1955 because of thesemester she missed during the fall of 1953.
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