Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birthday

    1932-10-27

  • Day of Death

    1963-02-11 (30 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

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