Plath, Sylvia
Plath, Sylvia( 1932–63),born in Massachusetts, attended Smith College on a scholarship endowed by Olive Higgins Prouty, who later befriended her and appeared in her fiction. She suffered a nervous breakdown (1953) but returned to Smith to graduate (1955). These experiences formed the basis of her moving novel The Bell Jar (1963), published under the pseudonym Victoria Lewis. A scholarship took her to England, where she married the British poet Ted Hughes. They lived briefly in the U.S., while she taught at Smith, but after returning to England and seemingly settling down with family and as an author, she suddenly took her life. Her intense, candid, and personal poems were published in the U.S. as The Colossus (1962), Ariel (1966), Crossing the Water (1971), and Winter Trees (1972). Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977) collects various prose writings. Letters Home (1975) is a selection of...
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