Lecture And Discussion With Heather Clark

Join award-winning writer Dr. Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (2020), for her talk, "Cracked Stars Shining: Writing the Lives of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton." A reception and signing will follow the discussion. About Heather Clark Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. She is the author, most recently, of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of 2021, as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a "Book of the Year" in The Guardian, The Times, The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, NEH Public Scholars Fellowship, and a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship. Clark's work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Poetry, Time, Air Mail, Literary Hub, PN Review, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Scrapbook, is coming in June 2025 from Pantheon. She holds a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University and lives outside New York City. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube. More Info below.