Author

Books by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she attended Smith College and later Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship. Her poetry collection The Colossus was published in 1960, and her posthumous collection Ariel, published in 1965, established her reputation as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. The Bell Jar was first published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas and was published under her name posthumously in 1971. Plath died in London in February 1963. She won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1982 for her Collected Poems.