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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet born in 1932 in Massachusetts who was known for her novel The Bell Jar and poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. She met and married British poet Ted Hughes but they later divorced. Plath struggled with depression and committed suicide in 1963, though she gained recognition after her death.

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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet born in 1932 in Massachusetts who was known for her novel The Bell Jar and poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. She met and married British poet Ted Hughes but they later divorced. Plath struggled with depression and committed suicide in 1963, though she gained recognition after her death.

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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet best known for her novel The Bell Jar, and for

    her poetry
    collections The Colossus and Ariel.
    Synopsis
    Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. Plath met and married
    British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in
    1963, garnering accolades after her death for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetry
    collections The Colossus and Ariel. In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous
    Pulitzer Prize.
    Early Life
    Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sylvia
    Plath was a gifted and troubled poet, known for the confessional style of her work. Her interest
    in writing emerged at an early age, and she started out by keeping a journal. After publishing a
    number of works, Plath won a scholarship to Smith College in 1950.
    While she was a student, Sylvia Plath spent time in New York City during the summer of 1953
    working for Mademoiselle magazine as a guest editor. Soon after, Plath tried to kill herself by
    taking sleeping pills. She eventually recovered, having received treatment during a stay in a
    mental health facility. Plath returned to Smith and finished her degree in 1955.
    Relationship and Published Poetry
    A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at
    the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and
    had a stormy relationship. In 1957, Plath spent time in Massachusetts to study with poet Robert
    Lowell and met fellow poet and student Ann Sexton. She also taught English at Smith College
    around that same time. Plath returned to England in 1959.
    A poet on the rise, Sylvia Plath had her first collection of poetry, The Colossus, published in
    England in 1960. That same year, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Freida. Two
    years later, Plath and Hughes welcomed a second child, a son named Nicholas. Unfortunately,
    the couple's marriage was failing apart.
    Suicide
    After Hughes left her for another woman in 1962, Sylvia Plath fell into a deep depression.
    Struggling with her mental illness, she wrote The Bell Jar (1963), her only novel, which was based
    on her life and deals with one young woman's mental breakdown. Plath published the novel
    under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She also created the poems that would make up the
    collection Ariel (1965), which was released after her death. Sylvia Plath committed suicide on
    February 11, 1963.
    Legacy
    Much to the dismay of some admirers of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes became her literary executor
    after her death. While there has been some speculation about how he handled her papers and
    her image, he did edit what is considered by many to her greatest work, Ariel. It featured several
    of her most well-known poems, including "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus." He continued to produce
    new collections of Plath's works. Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Collected Poems.
    She is still a highly regarded and much studied poet to this day.
    The story of Sylvia Plath—her troubled life and tragic death—was the basis for the 2003
    biopic Sylvia starring Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role.

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