Audrey Niffenegger vs. Sylvia Plath
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Audrey Niffenegger
1963 – present
Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller.
"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
Sylvia Plath
1932 – 1963
Sylvia Plath 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 (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.
"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand …"