Sylvia Plath Born: 27-Oct-1932 Birthplace: Boston, MA Died: 11-Feb-1963 Location of death: London, England Cause of death: Suicide Remains: Buried, St. Thomas à Beckett and St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, England
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Daddy Father: Otto Plath (entomologist, Professor of Biology at Boston University, d. 1940 diabetes) Mother: Aurelia Schoeber Brother: Warren (younger) Husband: Ted Hughes (poet, m. 16-Jun-1956, two children) Son: Nicholas Hughes (zoologist, d. 16-Mar-2009 suicide) Daughter: Frieda Hughes (m. artist Laszlo Lukacs)
High School: Wellesley High School, Wellesley, MA University: BA, Smith College (1955) University: MA English, Newnham College, Cambridge University (1956-)
Mademoiselle Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 for Collected Poems (posthumous) Fulbright Tonsillectomy Shock Treatment Suicide Attempt 24-Aug-1953 Nervous Breakdown Raped 1954 (while attending Harvard Summer School) Appendectomy Feb-1960 Died Intestate Autopsy German Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression, Insomnia, Appendicitis, Tonsillitis
Author of books:
The Colossus and Other Poems (1960, poetry) The Bell Jar (1963, novel) Ariel (1965, poetry) Crossing the Water (1971, poetry) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Other Prose Writings (1977, collection) Collected Poems (1981, poetry)
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