Sylvia+Plath

Ayanna Dorsey

__**Sylvia Plath**__ __**Biography**__:  Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. She published her first poem when she eight-years-old, and ever since then she has loved poetry. She received a scholarship to Smith College in 1950. Her first published volume of poetry was published in 1960 and it was called // The Colossus  //, this book was published when she was 28. Sylvia had a hard life her father died when she was eight, but during the summer of junior year in college she worked as a guest editor for the Mademoiselle Magazine, and had a near death experience. She wrote about this experience in her book // The Bell Jar //, that was published in 1963. Sylvia graduated from Smith College in 1955, recieving another scholarship to Cambridge in England. She married Ted Hughes in 1956. **__ THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION __**