1. Sylvia Paths By Michelle McClennen And Steph Farrar

2. Facts Sylvia was born on October 27 1932 in Massachusetts. She lived with her mother, father and younger brother Attended Smiths college A man Sylvia was dating later became the character Buddy in her story The Bell Jar.

3. Some of her work - Journals Plath began keeping a diary at age 11, and kept journals until her suicide. Her adult diaries, starting from her freshman year at Smith College in 1950, were first published in 1980 as The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Frances McCullough

4. Poems Plath has been criticized for her controversial allusions to the Hollacoast and is known for her uncanny use of metaphor While the few critics who responded to Plath's first book favorably- The Colossus, it has also been described as somewhat staid and conventional in comparison to the much more free-flowing imagery and intensity of her later work.

5. Awards Sylvia had won a Saxton Grant $2,000 that enabled her to work on The Bell Jar. Won Pulitzer Prize She was chosen to be guest editor of Mademoiselle's College Board Contest First place in the Boston Globe for a new story

6. Awards continued… Top prize in the Atlantic Monthly Scholastic contest for Friction Offered a full scholarship to Wellesley College Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge University in England Glascock Poetry Prize, 1955

7. Some of what Sylvia Plath’s wrote The Bell Jar (1963) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968) Crossing the Water (1971) The Bed Book (1976)

8. Writing style Sylvia Plath's approach to rhythm in her poetry was all her own. Her earlier poems were composed slowly and with great care, while her later poems were written at a greater and increasing speed

9. The importance of Sylvia writing Although most of Plath's best poems were written in the early 1960s, readers today find her work instantaneous. Her expression of distrust of society, her anger at the positions talented women were asked to take in that society, were healthful (and rare) during the early 1960s, so she became a kind of voice of the times in the same way Ernest Hemingway expressed the mood of the 1920s.

10. Death Plath took her own life after she completely sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with wet towels and cloths. Plath then placed her head in the oven while the gas was turned on. The next day an inquiry ruled that her death was a suicide.