Sylvia Plath
Writing
October 27, 1932
Died at age 30
February 11, 1963
Date of Death
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
8 Credits
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.
