Plath is widely considered one of the most emotionally evocative and compelling American poets of the postwar period. Although Plath gained only modest critical success during her lifetime, after her suicide at the age of thirty and the subsequent...

Author Sylvia Plath's association with death and madness stemmed from her confessional poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, and the facts of her life, but most of all from the cult of readers—many of them teenage girls—that formed after...

(born October 27, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died February 11, 1963, London, England) American poet and novelist whose best-known works are preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction. Plath published her first poem at age...

(born Oct. 27, 1932, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Feb. 11, 1963, London, Eng.) U.S. poet. The daughter of an entomologist, Plath was driven to excel as a writer from an early age and published her first poem at age eight. At Smith College she made an...

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The...