The literary estate’s iron fist in doling out permissions hasn’t helped. The melodrama of her life and its horrific conclusion overwhelms the fact that above all, Plath was a poet. It’s exactly this transference that makes a Plath biography challenging. With Heather Clark’s new biography, “ Red Comet,” clocking in at more than 1,100 pages, the Plath cup runneth over. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ambition, motherhood, the American dream, anti-Semitism, postwar poetry, mental illness and, most powerfully, feminism. Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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