Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
Plath in 1957
Born	(1932-10-27)October 27, 1932 Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died	February 11, 1963(1963-02-11) (aged 30) London, England, UK
Resting place	Heptonstall Church, West Yorkshire, England
Pen name	Victoria Lucas
Occupation	Poet novelist short story writer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Smith College Newnham College, Cambridge University of Cambridge
Period	1960–63
Genre	Poetry fiction short story
Literary movement	Confessional poetry
Notable works	The Bell Jar and Ariel
Notable awards	Fulbright scholarship Glascock Prize 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 The Collected Poems (posthumously)
Spouse	Ted Hughes (1956–63)
Children	Frieda Hughes Nicholas Hughes
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Sylvia Plath (/plæθ/; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes from 1956 until they separated in September 1962. They lived together in the United States and then in England and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life. She died by suicide in 1963.

Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath (1906–1994), was a second-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Germany. Plath's father was an entomologist and a professor of biology at Boston University who authored a book about bumblebees.

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