Book Review: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Red Comet

The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

by Heather Clark

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Knopf

Biographies & Memoirs

Pub Date 06 Oct 2020

Netgalley and Knopf have provided me with a copy of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath for review:

This book is not a feel-good read, but if you’re looking for a comprehensive biography on a brilliant but broken woman, Sylvia Plath, then I definitely recommend it.

Heather Clark uses unpublished letters, manuscripts, court records, and new interviews to bring Sylvia Plath, the daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts, to life. In the 1950s, she was an accomplished writer of stories and poems before she became a star English student at Smith College.

In Boston’s South End, Sylvia Plath was born at Robinson Memorial Hospital on October 27, 1932.

Sylvia Plath had received her 100th book by the age of eleven. Sylvia was elected president of her eighth grade homeroom and secretary of her English class.

As a gift from her Grandfather, Sylvia received a fountain pen with her name engraved in gold in January 1946. During that…