Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) was a US 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" (1960) and "Ariel" (1965), as well as "The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963. A collection of her poems was published in 1981, for which she was posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Dying

Is an art, like everything else.
- Lady Lazarus

Shirley Conran