Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
Born	(1932-10-27)October 27, 1932 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 11, 1963(1963-02-11) (aged 30) London, England
Resting place	Heptonstall Church, England
Pen name	Victoria Lucas
Occupation	Poet author
Language	English
Education	Smith College (BA) Newnham College, Cambridge Boston University
Period	1960–1963
Genre	Poetry short story
Literary movement	Confessional poetry
Notable works	The Bell Jar Ariel
Notable awards	Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize 1955 Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 The Collected Poems (posthumously)
Spouse	Ted Hughes ​ (m. 1956)​
Children	Frieda Hughes Nicholas Hughes
Relatives	Otto Plath (father) Aurelia Schober (mother)
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Sylvia Plath (/plæθ/; 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, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously.^[1]

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands.^[2] They had two children before separating in 1962.

Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life and was treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).^[3] She died by suicide in 1963.