Sylvia Plath

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Known Credits

8

Gender

Female

Birthday

1932-10-27

Day of death

1963-02-11 (30 years old)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sylvia Plath

Biography

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

  • The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits

    The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits

  • Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath

    Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath

  • Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel

    Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel

  • Lady Lazarus

    Lady Lazarus

  • Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar

  • Epilogue

    Epilogue

  • Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

  • Great Poets: In Their Own Words

    Great Poets: In Their Own Words