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Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Plath's best-known collection.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963); Ariel was published posthumously in 1965. Her Collected Poems (1981), which contains poetry written from 1956 until her death, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.