Sylvia Plath
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 *The Collected Poems* was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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.
Books
- The Bell Jar 2006
- Ariel 1965
- The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1982
- The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 2000
- Collected Poems 1981
- The Colossus and Other Poems 1962
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
- Crossing the Water 1971
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 1975
- Letters Home 1975
- The bed book 1976
- Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
- Winter Trees 1971
- Watch For The Light
- Sylvia Plath Poems
- The It-Doesn'T-Matter Suit 1996
- The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition