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Sylvia Plath


USA flag (1932 - 1963)

aka Victoria Lucas

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Bell Jar (1961)
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Collections
   The Colossus (poems) (1960)
   Ariel (poems) (1965)
   The Collected Poems (poems) (2008)
   Crossing the Water (poems) (2008)
   Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (2008)
   Poems Selected by Ted Hughes (poems) (2009)
   Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy (poems) (2019)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   American Poetry Now (1961)
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