Personal Info
Born: 1932-10-27
Died: 1963-02-11
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: Writing
Also Known As:
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath
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.
