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- 1932-1963. US poet and novelist. Plath's
- powerful, highly personal poems, often
- expressing a sense of desolation, are
- distinguished by their intensity and sharp
- imagery. Collections include The Colossus
- 1960; Ariel 1965, published after her death;
- and Collected Poems 1981, which was awarded a
- Pulitzer Prize. Her autobiographical novel,
- The Bell Jar 1961, deals with the events
- surrounding a young woman's emotional
- breakdown. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she
- attended Smith College and was awarded a
- Fulbright scholarship to study at Cambridge
- University, England, where she met the poet
- Ted Hughes, whom she married 1956; they
- separated in 1962. She committed suicide
- while living in London.
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