# Sylvia Plath

> She turned her depression, her marriage, and her unraveling into a new kind of poetry—raw, direct, unsparing—then died at thirty, one month after her only novel appeared. The work that made her a Pulitzer winner arrived eighteen years after her suicide.

*American poet and writer (1932–1963)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1932-10-27
- **Died:** 1963-02-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in Boston in 1932, Plath graduated from Smith College and won a Fulbright to Cambridge, where she met and married poet Ted Hughes in 1956. After a brief return to the States—including a seminar with Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton that crystallized the confessional style—she moved back to England in 1959. Her first collection, The Colossus, came in 1960; by then she had two children and a marriage fraying under what unpublished letters to her therapist later revealed as physical and emotional abuse. She'd fought severe depression and brutal early electroconvulsive treatments for years. In 1963, The Bell Jar appeared under a pseudonym; one month later, separated from Hughes, she died by suicide in London at thirty. Ariel followed in 1965, then The Collected Poems in 1981—winning her a posthumous Pulitzer, the fourth ever awarded to the dead.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 70.7 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 29.3 / 100
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## Platforms
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## Topics
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