
Sylvia Plath
Known for
Writing
Born
October 27, 1932
Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died
February 11, 1963 (aged 30)
Biography
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. She is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection, Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honour posthumously.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and then the University of Cambridge in...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
The Bell JarNovel
2025
I Am VerticalOriginal Story
2019
Epilogueas voice (archive footage)
2018
Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jaras Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)
2016
2015
2014
1999
1992
Lady Lazarusas Narrator (voice) (archive footage), Poem
1988
Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plathas Herself (Archive)
1979
The Bell JarNovel
1979
Follia come poesiaWriter
1962
Sylvia Plath reading poems from Arielas self, Writer









