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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University where she met Ted Hughes, whom she married in 1956. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Plath's volume Ariel (1965) secured her reputation and her Collected Poems (1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Archivist Peter K. Steinberg has published widely on Sylvia Plath including the introduction to The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (British Library, 2010). He is co-editor (with Karen V. Kukil) of the two-volume edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath (2017, 2018).
