Author Talk: The Scrapbook by Heather Clark

Meet Heather Clark discuss her new book "The Scrapbook."

From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death.

The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a life changing seduction.

About the Author

Heather Clark earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship; the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography; a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship; a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library. A former Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing,  

Red Comet was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2021.

Please read Heather Clark's profile in the New York Times 6/18/25:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/books/review/the-scrapbook-heather-clark.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.KYdw.GUJnbFdlTSEg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare