Author Q&A with Heather Clark (event video)

Dr. Heather Clark speaks about her book Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Path of Sylvia Plath. This acclaimed new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. Heather talks about her reasons for undertaking the book and the journey she went through as she wrote it. After that, there are a set of questions from the audience.

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Path of Sylvia Plath includes a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Massachusetts (born in Jamaica Plain, but raised mostly in Wellesley) who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

The event was held on April 15, 2021 at 6:00 p.m via Zoom. Click on the triangle below to watch the presentation.