On some days, you've just gotta love Google

[Cyrano]

Today, they paid tribute to a great writer who is not as well known she deserves to be.

Sylvia Plath

Poet

DescriptionSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. Wikipedia

Born: October 27, 1932, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Died: February 11, 1963, Primrose Hill, London, United Kingdom

Poems: Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Mad Girl's Love Song, Tulips, MORE

Children: Frieda Hughes, Nicholas Hughes

There are so many who contribute to the arts and sciences who are never recognized. Kudos to Google for this.

[underpants]

1. That's why that popped up when I was looking for something else

Thanks. I'd been wondering how I got to Sylvia Plath

[Ohiogal]

2. I read her book The Bell Jar

in high school .... it blew me away.

[lillypaddle]

5. Me, too, Ohiogal

I love her poetry, too.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Me 3

Was scratching my head to remember when I had seen her name when I saw the google doodle.

In fact I think it was this version too -

[dalton99a]

3. A recognition long overdue.

[Cyrano]

4. Take a moment and punch up google

Today's sketch is subtle, delicious and beautiful.

[lillypaddle]

6. I thought she was quite famous

No?

[DemocracyMouse]

8. She is quite famous and Google is simply micro targetting the literary opinion leaders

This very converstion, with a bloated corporation at the center of it, could very well have been induced by said corporation.

I can understand why Plath killed herself.