Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
When she was just a college student, Plath won a Guest Editorship at Mademoiselle magazine. (Nice work if you can get it, we think.) If you want to read a somewhat fictionalized account of this time in her life, check out her novel The Bell Jar. But be warned: The Bell Jar is about as upbeat as "Lady Lazarus." (Source.)
Bummer ahead. Plath's suicide is infamous and violent; she killed herself by placing her head in a gas oven. (Source.)
Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was also a super-famous poet. His collection of poems Birthday Letters is his response to Plath's death (written and released decades and decades later).