![]() Actually, through the course of the research, I became a more firm believer in my own thesis, because even I would have these moments, and my editor would write in the margin, “Don’t fall into the Plath trap. So I started with that sense of mission, but I certainly don’t think it’s something that everyone starts with. Heather Clark’s Red Comet is the book I’ve been waiting for. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Heather Clark 4.60 2,887 ratings642 reviews The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. ![]() I felt like she’s so brilliant and witty and cerebral and ironic, and a lot of that was getting lost in the popular imagination. I had this sense of injustice, or frankly anger, about the ways in which she had become a writer whose name was often synonymous with madness and tragedy. ![]() But I don’t necessarily believe that’s the case. It’s been drilled into my head that you need a thesis. Heather Clark: I guess I did begin with that thesis, probably because of my academic training. Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath Review by Paul Alexander Octoat 9:21 a.m. My question is, does biography always begin with an agenda? You already had a previous understanding of this woman’s work as a scholar, but did you begin with that thesis or did the research show you what that thesis was? ![]()
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