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Sylvia Plath is a poet, writer, novelist born in Boston (United States).
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck.
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| Born | 27 October 1932, Boston |
| Profession | poet, writer, novelist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | Smith College |
| Educated at | Smith College, Newnham College |
| Spouse | Ted Hughes |
| Children | Frieda Hughes, Nicholas Hughes |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Glascock Prize, Fulbright Scholarship |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Virgo |
| Nakshatra | Hasta (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Libra |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Aquarius |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Web) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 29 of them (9%) have the Moon in Virgo, like Sylvia Plath, and 9 (3%) share the Hasta Nakshatra — the #22 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Sylvia Plath was born on 27 October 1932 in Boston. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Web) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Sylvia Plath's Moon sign (Rashi) is Virgo and the Nakshatra is Hasta, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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