Sylvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932. She graduated from Smith College in 1955 and went on to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She began writing poetry as a child and stories in her mid-teens. The Bell Jar is her only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963, a few weeks before her suicide. She published one volume of poetry, The Colossus, in her lifetime.
Posthumous publications include Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, a collection of prose, Ariel, a poetry collection, and Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, a short story published in the Faber Stories series.
Posthumous publications include Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, a collection of prose, Ariel, a poetry collection, and Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, a short story published in the Faber Stories series.
