This 1954 photograph of novelist and poet Sylvia Plath, taken by Warren Kay Vantine, is courtesy of the College Archives at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. At the time, Plath was 22. She committed suicide at age 30 but left behind an incredible legacy of work that includes “The Bell Jar” and “The Unabridged Journals,” a deeply personal account of her life and its “mundane” events.
