īorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. 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 (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. There have been various – often contested and contradictory – biographies of Plath since her death as well as much of her own autobiographical work including two volumes of her letters (the third volume is published in September 2018) and her journals.Sylvia Plath ( / p l æ θ/ October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. After her death, Hughes went on to published three further volumes of Plath’s unpublished verse including including The Collected Poems, which was the recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize, making Plath the first poet to posthumously win the award.Ĭritics have compared Plath’s work to that of other American so-called ‘confessional’ poets including Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell and her life and work have made her a major cult figure for writers and readers alike. Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in 1963, a month before Plath took her own life at the age of 30.
In 1962, after her separation from Hughes, Plath wrote and published her most famous poetry collection, Ariel. Plath’s first collection of poetry, The Colossus, was first published in 1960. After graduating from Smith College, Plath moved to Cambridge, England on a Fulbright scholarship where she met and married Ted Hughes. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had already published poems in regional journals and newspapers before leaving school.
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