​Heather Clark

​Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. Her six books include Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the LA Times Book Prize for biography. Her most recent publication is her 2025 novel The Scrapbook, which tells the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory. Heather holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a doctorate in English Literature from Oxford, and was formerly Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield, UK.