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Heather Clark


Born
in The United States
May 30, 1974

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Biography, Fiction


Dr. 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.
Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship, and a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York.

She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972 (2006).

Her debut novel The Scrapbook was published ...more

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Average rating: 4.38 · 4,445 ratings · 840 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Red Comet: The Short Life a...
4.57 avg rating — 4,850 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions
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The Scrapbook: A Novel
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The Grief of Influence: Syl...
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short ...
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The Ulster Renaissance: Poe...
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“I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
tags: force, glory, lust, ruthless, violent-love
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“I am living now in a kind of present hell and god knows what ceremonies of life or love can patch the havoc wrought. I took care, such care, and even that was not enough, for my being deserted utterly.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
tags: deserted, hell-on-earth, sylvia-plath
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“She could swim in him: that incredible violent presence of his: leashed.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
tags: presence, violent
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