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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. [1] She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962 ...
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials–including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews–Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Photo: Carolyn Simpson; Knopf. With Red Comet, Heather Clark had a clear mission in mind: to “rewrite the script on Sylvia Plath.” A Harvard- and Oxford-educated scholar, Clark felt that ...
Heather Clark earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University.Her awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship; a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library.
Clark is compassionate, clear-eyed, skeptical. Each chapter reads with the ease of a novel. You feel the smart of every rejection letter, share Plath’s elation in each published poem, read the recreation of her first suicide attempt with a tightening chest and reel through the night when she met Ted Hughes with drunken exultance.
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 . [1]
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Oct 27, 2020 · By Heather Clark Illustrated. 1,118 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $40. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 1 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Star Power .
