Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) 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 (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Plath has received more than 11,057,619 page views. Her biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Sylvia Plath is the 399th most popular writer (up from 439th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from United States (up from 436th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Writer.

Sylvia Plath is most famous for her novel The Bell Jar, which was published in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who is slowly going insane.