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Heather Clark is an American writer, literary critic and academic. Her biography of poet Sylvia Plath, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography. * A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year * WINNER of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism * WINNER of the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography.
Oct 27, 2020 · “Red Comet,” a mammoth new biography by Heather Clark, aims to rescue the poet from the clichés that have dominated her afterlife and secure her status as a major American writer.
Oct 29, 2020 · With Heather Clark’s new biography, “Red Comet,” clocking in at more than 1,100 pages, the Plath cup runneth over. It’s exactly this transference that makes a Plath biography challenging.
Jan 11, 2021 · On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with writer and poetry professor Heather Clark about her new Sylvia Plath biography, Red Comet. They discussed Clark’s extensive archival ...
Combining rigorous research with in-depth literary analysis and immersive style, Heather Clark’s magisterial book not only traces Plath’s influences and inspirations, but also chronicles her often-tumultuous relationships with respect and empathy.
Mar 2, 2021 · Heather Clark, whose 1,100-page biography of Sylvia Plath was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Jonathan Cape in October 2020, talks about her experience writing the life of an iconic figure who...
