Sylvia Plath

Biography

Sylvia Plath 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 and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Known For

Lady Lazarus

as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar

as Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

Epilogue

as voice (archive footage)

Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath

as Herself (Archive)

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as Self

Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits

as self

Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel

as self