Heather Clark.
HEATHER CLARK: sylvia plath biography
RED COMET: THE SHORT LIFE AND BLAZING ART OF SYLVIA PLATH (2021)
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography 2021.
A Book of the Year at the Times and the Daily Telegraph.
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Sylvia Plath (born 1932) was an American poet, novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in Boston, USA, and attended Smith College and afterwards Newnham College, Cambridge. When she was 24 she married the British poet Ted Hughes. They lived in the USA and then the UK, and had two children. The marriage was tempestuous, and they separated in 1962. A year later Plath, who suffered from clinical depression for much of her adult life, committed suicide.
Heather Clark gives a detailed and sympathetic account of Sylvia Plath’s creative and tragic life, which was cut short when she was only thirty. The Financial Times wrote of the book: ‘The ‘definitive account’ of Sylvia Plath. Heather Clark’s biography, Red Comet, frees the poet of decades of mythmaking and cultural baggage.’
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Heather Clark (born 1974) divides her time between New York and Yorkshire, England, where she is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. Clark obtained a BA in English Literature from Harvard University, and a D.Phil in English from the University of Oxford. In addition to her books she has contributed to the New York Times, the Harvard Review, and the Times Literary Supplement.
