| Sylvia Plath  Born: 27-Oct-1932
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 11-Feb-1963
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, 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)
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
Autopsy
German Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression, Insomnia, Appendicitis
Author of books:
The Bell Jar (1963, autobiographical novel, pseudonym Victoria Lucas)
The Colossus (1960, poetry)
Ariel (1965, poetry)
Crossing the Water (1971, poetry)
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977, short stories, prose)
Collected Poems (1981, edited by ex-husband Ted Hughes)
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