Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

October 27, 1932 (92 years old) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Known For

Great Poets: In Their Own Words Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Epilogue Epilogue

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