Sylvia Plath (Boston, USA, October 27, 1932 - Primrose Hill, London, February 11, 1963) was an American writer especially known as a poet. He was also author of prose, the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"), stories and essays. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is recognized as one of the main cultivators of the genre of confessional poetry initiated by Robert Lowell and WD Snodgrass. She was married to the writer Ted Hughes, who after his death was responsible for the edition of his complete poetry