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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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Sylvia Plath
American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath.
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Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath at Hughes's family's home in Yorkshire, England, 1956
Sylvia Plath met English poet Ted Hughes in 1956 while Plath was studying at the...
Sylvia Plath Collection, Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections, Smith College, Northampton MA (MRBC-MS-00045)
Sylvia Plath, 1950
American poet Sylvia Plath wrote the searingly personal poem “Daddy” in October 1962.
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