Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain, Boston on October 27th 1932 and died in Primrose Hill, London on the 11th of February 1963, aged 30. She was raised on the coast in Boston, went to school inland at Wellesley, then studied at Smith College and won a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge University, England, where in 1956 she met and then married the poet Ted Hughes. In 1957 they moved to America, and in 1959 they returned to England – London, then Devon. In 1960 her first collection of poetry, The Colossus, was published and in January 1963 her novel The Bell Jar.