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 and Other Poems (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her volume Ariel (1965) secured her reputation, and The Collected Poems (1981), which contains poetry written from 1956 until her death, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Archivist PETER K. STEINBERG has published more than a dozen articles on Sylvia Plath. He wrote the introduction to The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (2010) and is the coauthor of a book of essays, These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath (2017). He maintains the oldest continuously updated website for Plath, A celebration, this is (www.sylviaplath.info), as well as the Sylvia Plath Info Blog (http://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com).
KAREN V. KUKIL curates the Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath collections at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She also teaches in their Archives Concentration Program and is the editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962 (2000). Her exhibitions include “No Other Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry (Grolier Club, New York, 2005) and One Life: Sylvia Plath (National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2017).
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