Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was an American writer whose best-known works, including the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (from her collection Ariel) and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction that has resonated with many readers since the mid-20th century. She was one of the leading figures of confessional poetry and literature of the women’s movement beginning in the 1960s.
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