Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) Daddy LINKS Sylvia Plath http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/privat2/ beckmann/public_html/plath.html This site, created and maintained by a student, contains a brief biography of Plath, a selected bibliography, and many useful links, including the texts of several of Plath's poems. Sylvia Plath Archives http://www.uccs.edu/~kmfreckl/plath.html Created by a student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, this site contains many links to Plath's works, two short biographies, and some additional links to works about Plath. BIOGRAPHY Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where her parents taught at Boston University. She graduated summa cum laude in English from Smith College (1955), earned an M.A. as a Fullbright scholar at Newnham College, Cambridge (1955–1957), and married British poet Ted Hughes (1956). Plath's poetry reveals the anger and anxiety that would eventually lead to her suicide. Her view that all relationships were in some way destructive and predatory surely darkened her life. Yet in 1963, during the month between the publication of her only novel, The Bell Jar (about a suicidal college student), and her death, Plath was extraordinarily productive; she produced finished poems every day. One critic suggests that for her, suicide was a positive act, a "refusal to collaborate" in a world she could not accept. Her Collected Poems was published in 1981.