Heather Clark: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark is a 2016 – 2017 Fellow
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world