Some people best know Sylvia Plath for her unusual mode of suicide; others remember her for as one of the first authors to write openly about her own mental illness. But there's even more to her than that: the early loss of her father, the obsessive desire to be an over-achiever, that time she made national news as a missing person, the desire to find a 'perfect' husband, and the wild betrayal she felt when that perfect husband had an affair. But what exactly caused the author of THE BELL JAR to kill herself at age 30? If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. Host: Paris Brown Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from *The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab*, 2005 and by Punch Deck. "Oppressive Ambiance," 2018, under a Creative Commons attribution license. Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner (nathalierattnerart@gmail.com); IG: https:...