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Sylvia Plath

Oct 27, 1932 - Feb 11, 1963 (30 years old) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Known For

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Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)
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The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
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Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
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Great Poets: In Their Own Words
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Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath
Herself (Archive)
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Lady Lazarus
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
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Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel
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Epilogue
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