Heather Clark, author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (OUP, 2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972 (OUP, 2006), has been awarded a $50,000 2017-18 "Public Scholar" Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funds will enable Clark to continue work on her forthcoming, highly-anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath entitled Sylvia Plath: The Light of the Mind (Knopf).
The award says many things but perhaps most important is the NEH's recognition of Sylvia Plath's status as an iconic American writer.
Reports have appeared so far in The Washington Post and The New York Times.
From The Washington Post, "Heather Clark won a public scholars grant to write a definitive critical biography of Sylvia Plath, which Knopf expects to publish in 2019."
Heather Clark, CUNY Research Foundation ($50,400): "The Light of the Mind"
"A biography of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) that emphasizes her literary development and her important place in American letters."
Congratulations Heather! You can read the full list of grants here (p. 29)
All links accessed 2 and 3 August 2017.
The award says many things but perhaps most important is the NEH's recognition of Sylvia Plath's status as an iconic American writer.
Reports have appeared so far in The Washington Post and The New York Times.
From The Washington Post, "Heather Clark won a public scholars grant to write a definitive critical biography of Sylvia Plath, which Knopf expects to publish in 2019."
Heather Clark, CUNY Research Foundation ($50,400): "The Light of the Mind"
"A biography of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) that emphasizes her literary development and her important place in American letters."
Congratulations Heather! You can read the full list of grants here (p. 29)
All links accessed 2 and 3 August 2017.