Biography:Credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections: "Other Poems and Ariel" and "The Colossus".
Plath won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" and is also well known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Bell Jar".
She suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963 she committed suicide.
Born:October 27, 1932 Birthplace:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1956-06-16 British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (25) weds American writer and poet Sylvia Plath (23) at St George the Martyr Holborn in London, England, until her death in 1963
Historical Events
1956-02-26 Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1963-01-14 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
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