<p>It has been just over 50 years since Sylvia Plath committed suicide, and her place in American letters is secure.</p><p>Today she is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the century.</p><p>When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.</p><p>Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers.</p><p>But, like mos...