Author Event with Heather Clark co-sponsored by Eight Cousins

Library : Falmouth Public Library

Location : Hermann Foundation Meeting Room Falmouth Public Library - Main Library, 300 Main Street, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Start : Saturday 26th of July 2025 4:00 PM

End : Saturday 26th of July 2025 5:00 PM

Description :

Join us for a lecture and book signing with author Heather Clark, in cooperation with our neighbor in books, Eight Cousins.  From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clarkâs own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death. Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship, and a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York. She is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962â1972, and Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction. Red Comet was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was one of the New York Timesâ 10 Best Books of 2021. falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/author-event-with-heather-clark/