24/11/2025
On the 9th of December (Tuesday) at 11:3-12:30, in Room 505, Heather Clark (professor emerita at the University of Huddersfield) will deliver a lecture on her recent, Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of Sylvia Plath, "The Red Comet". The talk is titled "Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life."
FB event: Heather Clark's open lecture, "Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life," 9th December
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HEATHER CLARK is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. 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 the author of The Scrapbook: A Novel; Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972; and Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction. Red Comet was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021. Red Comet was also a “Book of the Year” in The Guardian, The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph, The Boston Globe, Lit Hub, The Times of India, Trouw (Netherlands), and elsewhere. Clark’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Lit Hub, Poetry, and The Times Literary Supplement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard and a doctorate in English from Oxford, and is Professor Emerita of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She lives outside of New York City.