Sylvia Plath
Born |
October 27, 1932
Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Died |
February 11, 1963 (Aged years)
Primrose Hill, London, England |
Region | North America |
Language | English |
Profession | Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer |
Education | Smith College University of Cambridge |
Period | Contemporary |
Movements | Confessional |
Notable Works | The Bell Jar, Ariel, Lady Lazarus, Daddy |
Awards | Glascock Prize Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Bio | 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 The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. |