Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) (Mirror)
Despite her success as a writer, Sylvia Plath lived a short, unhappy life. In many of her poems, she expresses intense wrote poetry and received scholastic and literary awards as a young woman. Her first national publication appeared in the Christian Science Monitor in 1959, just after she graduated from high school. Although she had emotional difficulties during her years at Smith College, she graduated with highest honors in 1995. She also studied at Cambridge University in England, where she met and married poet Ted Hughes. Her first book of verse, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), was the only book published during her lifetime. Four more books of poetry and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963), were published posthumously. In 1982, Plath was awarded the Pulitzer for her collected poems, making her the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize after death.