AUTHOR | SYLVIA PLATH
Sylvia Plath | Poet, novelist, short story writer
Bio:
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956. they lived together in the United States and then the United Kingdom, and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life. She died by suicide in 1963. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems, and Ariel. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.
Born: 1932-10-27
Born in: Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died: 1963-02-11
Top Categories withSylvia Plath
peotry quotations15 life quotes12 love quotes9 quotations about marriage6 quotation about writing5
Top Tags withSylvia Plath
books76 Sylvia Plath71 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath26 poetry20 death14
All Quotes from the Author Sylvia Plath 101
“ The main point of the article was that a man's world...
“ The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Bluebla...
“ I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark re...
“ I can never read all the books I want; I can never b...
“ Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you d...
“ What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry...
“ Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
“ I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But ...
“ So I began to think maybe it was true that when you ...
“ Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one h...
“ A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost ...
“ I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Noth...
“ Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive n...
“ What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is...
“ The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A c...
“ I want to write because I have the urge to excel in ...