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Since time immemorial, man remains a constant narrator of his own sages and stories. Autobiography is a literary genre in which a poet or writer depicts his/her own experiences of life, sometimes in direct way and sometimes in a symbolic manner. To reveal his/her personal thoughts emotions and visions in front of the readers or audience, the writer has to select, modify and distribute some of his or her life’s facts. Augustine’s autobiography Confessions can be the first example of this genre, but “it was Robert Southey, who for the first time coined the term autobiography in 1809”(Sodhi 37).With the passage of time, it developed in a form of literature and many renowned politicians, writers, singers, actors, and prominent persons have recorded their lives in their autobiographies. Numerous writers have penned down their experiences in their autobiographies, such as Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), Simone de Beauvoir’s The Prime of Life(1960), and Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being (1985). Sylvia Plath is one of the most prominent literary figures in the history of English literature, who depicts her personal experiences in fictional novel, The Bell Jar(1963) and in many of her poems.