Sylvia Plath

Died in 1963

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932, the daughter of an entomologist from Germany, whom she lost at eight. She published her first poem at eight, won a scholarship to Smith College, from which she graduated with the highest honours, then a Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge, where she met the poet Ted Hughes, whom she married in London in 1956. She taught, wrote, raised two children, and published a collection and a novel in her lifetime. She died in London in February 1963, aged thirty; the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to her in 1982 for her collected poems.

In the catalogue 2

NovelThe Bell JarSylvia Plath · 1963Literature
PoetryArielSylvia Plath · 1965Literature