![]() “It means so much to me to win this award, especially as a writer of biography - a genre sometimes met with hostility within academia,” Prof Clark told the Iowa Writers Workshop. Some of her research was aided by the university’s Ted Hughes Network, who invited the professor to Huddersfield on a Visiting Scholarship in 2017. Instead, it used a wealth of new source information to assess her literary achievements as well as address her relationship with Hughes. Red Comet has a different approach to previous biographies of Plath, many of which focused on her marriage to Yorkshire-born poet Ted Hughes, her mental health struggles and her suicide in 1963. ![]() Prof Clark was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the biography of the American writer. ![]() The University of Huddersfield’s Professor of Contemporary Poetry published Red Comet – The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath in late 2020, since when it has been on the shortlist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, named in the New York Times’ Top 10 books of 2021 and a book of the year for the Daily Telegraph and The Times. ![]() ![]() Prof Heather Clark has won the Truman Capote Award 2022 to add to a list of prestigious honours for Red Comet, her acclaimed biography of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath. ![]()
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