Sylvia Plath, one of America’s most notorious writers, was the author of The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and several other books of poetry. Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize, posthumously, in 1982, and her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar is considered to be a modern classic.  She was married to the English poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and, in 1963, took her own life.