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Red Comet, Heather Clark’s heroic biography of Sylvia Plath, draws on a plethora of untapped archives and letters—and even a previously undiscovered novel— to resurrect Plath from “the limbo between icon and cliché” and conclude that “the most famous woman poet of the twentieth century was neither fragile ingénue nor femme fatale.

Rather, she was a highly disciplined craftswoman...whose innovative work gave new energy to the burgeoning literary and cultural revolutions of her time.”

From her youth in suburban Boston to her eminent academic accomplishments and stormy relationship with