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Sylvia Plath
AuthorBooks · Second hand1932-1963
Sylvia Plath 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 suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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.
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Birth
1932
Death
1963
First book
1963
Years writing
63
Sylvia Plath was a key figure in the development of confessional poetry.
She published her famous novel The Bell Jar under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.
In 1982, she became the fourth person to receive a Pulitzer Prize posthumously.
Beyond her work as a poet and novelist, she also wrote children's literature.
Born in Boston, she developed much of her literary career after settling in England.