Sylvia Plath
American writer & poet
Sylvia Plath (Boston, October 27, 1932-London, February 11, 1963)
was an American writer and poet. Considered one of the cultivators of
the genre of confessional poetry, her best known works are her poetry
collections The Colossus and Ariel and her
semi-autobiographical novel The Glass Bell, published under the
pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" four months before her suicide.
She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, who after her death took charge
of the edition of her complete poetry. In 1982 she won a posthumous
Pulitzer Prize for her Complete Poems.