Sylvia Plath was an American short story writer, poet and novelist born October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts and died February 11, 1963. Sylvia Plath is best known for , her books of poems, “The Colossus and Other Poems Collection” and the “Ariel Collection” of poems. Plath's poetry was known for its rhymes, alliterations, and disturbing and violent images. Plath's poetry is considered part of the confessional movement, which became very popular in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. It is considered a type of poetry about the "personal." Confessional poems are more associated with themes of sexuality, mental illness and suicide. Sylvia Plath was the daughter of Aurelia Schober and Otto Plath. His mother was a professor at Boston University and his father was a bee entomologist. She had a brother named Warren. Sylvia Plath began writing at a very young age, at the age of eight. She submitted her first poem to the children's section of the Boston Herald in 1941. The poem was called "Point Shirley." This story was about describing her grandparents' house when she moved to Point Shirley, Massachusetts. A week after he turned eight, his father died on November 5, 1940 from untreated diabetes after his foot was amputated. She then turned to writing and isolated herself from society. She became depressed and tired to the point of committing suicide. She then wrote the poem "Papa" in 1962, to describe what she thought of her father. While she was in high school, her story "And Summer Won't Come Again" was published in "Seventeen Again" magazine. In 1950, Sylvia graduated from Bradford Senior High School, top of her class. Right after high school, Plath was published nationally in "The Christian Sc......in the middle of the paper......didn't want her children to perish with her so she opened the window from his room and put food in it. then seal the door with duct tape. She then locked herself in the kitchen. She turned on the gas on the stove and died. She was buried on 16 February 1963 at the Hughes family cemetery in Heptonstall. After Sylvia's death, she became more famous than during her lifetime. Ted Hughes, while going through her belongings, found poems she had written and had them published in 1965. Assia moved in with Ted in 1966 and they had a daughter in 1967. In 1969, Assia could not live in the shadow of He and Sylvia took his and his daughter's lives in the same way Sylvia did. After her death, Hughes published a book of Sylvia's poems, "Collected Poems" in 1981. Her work won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. She was the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize after her death..