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Sylvia Plath: Poet of Ariel and The Bell Jar
American poet and novelist, 1932–1963
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston on 27 October 1932.
She married the poet Ted Hughes in 1956.
She wrote The Bell Jar and Ariel.
She died in London on 11 February 1963, aged 30.
Career highlights
- 1955Cambridge: Fulbright scholar
- 1956Ted Hughes: married
- 1960The Colossus: first collection
- 1963The Bell Jar: novel published
- 1982Pulitzer Prize: posthumous
Did you know?She was the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize after death.
