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 . 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).
4-586: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath is a 2020 book by Heather Clark that examines Sylvia Plath . The book has four "positive" reviews, thirteen "rave" reviews, and three "mixed" reviews, according to review aggregator Book Marks . It was selected for the New York Times Book Review ' s "10 Best Books of 2021" list and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography . This article about
8-741: A biographical book on writers or poets is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Heather Clark (writer) Clark earned a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in English from University of Oxford . Clark's first book, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972 was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. It is an exploration of the ten-year period of energetic poetic production in Belfast , Northern Ireland , driven by young poets such as Paul Muldoon , Seamus Heaney , Derek Mahon , Michael Longley , and James Simmons . The book won
12-723: The Donald J. Murphy Prize for Best First Book and the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies. Her second book, The Grief of Influence , is an analytical study of the creative work, tumultuous marriage, and artistic rivalry of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes , published by Oxford University Press in 2011. It was chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011. In 2020, Alfred A. Knopf published Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath . At over 1,000 pages,
16-520: The biography includes previously unpublished manuscripts, letters, court, police, and psychiatric records, and new interviews. In a review in The New York Times , Daphne Merkin writes, "This vast new biography sets out to recover Plath from her melodramatic legacy. Her life story—from her institutionalizations to her tempestuous marriage to Ted Hughes—has often been reduced to that of a depressive, literary femme fatale, which Clark believes ignores
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