Sylvia Plath
27 October 1932 – 11 February 1963
161 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) 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 death. *The Collected Poems* was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge, Plath met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. The couple settled permanently in England, and they had two children, a son and a daughter, before separating in 1962. She suffered from clinical depression for most of her adulthood, and lost her life to it in 1963.
Also published as: Victoria Lucas, Lucas, Victoria [Plath, Sylvia], Sylvia plath, Sylvia Sylvia Plath, Plath, Sylvia, intro by Robert Lowell, SYLVIA PLATH
Most-read books
The Bell Jar
4.1 · 1948 · 2.4K want to read
Ariel
4.1 · 1965 · 160 want to read
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
1982 · 134 want to read
The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
3.7 · 2000 · 102 want to read
Collected Poems
4.4 · 1963 · 73 want to read
The Colossus and Other Poems
3.7 · 1960 · 65 want to read
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
2019 · 50 want to read
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
4 · 1952 · 44 want to read
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
2016 · 46 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
1999 · 35 want to read
Crossing the Water
3.7 · 1971 · 25 want to read
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
4 · 1975 · 30 want to read
Letters Home
5 · 1975 · 24 want to read
The bed book
3 · 1976 · 25 want to read
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
2003 · 24 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
2002 · 24 want to read
Watch For The Light
2001 · 16 want to read
Sylvia Plath Poems
5 · 2012 · 21 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
1989 · 20 want to read
The It-Doesn'T-Matter Suit
1996 · 17 want to read
Winter Trees
1971 · 17 want to read
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
4 · 2002 · 13 want to read
Sylvia Plath
2013 · 11 want to read
Sylvia Plath's Selected poems
1985 · 10 want to read