Plath, Sylvia: - Sylvia Plath, born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts was the first child of Otto Plath, a professor of biology, and Aurelia Schober Plath a teacher. Plath's early childhood was marked by academic success, and she published her first poem at the age of eight in the children's section of the Boston Herald. In 1950, Plath began attending Smith College on a scholarship and those years were pivotal in shaping her as a writer. he was mainly known for writing in the style of confessional poetry and as a genre, it often focuses on extreme experiences of emotion and taboo subjects such as sexuality, mental illness, trauma, and death or suicide.