Heather Clark
@Plathbiography
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Author, RED COMET; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Guggenheim, NYPL Cullman Center & NEH Fellow; Truman Capote Award; THE SCRAPBOOK: A Novel
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Joined November 2011
We have a cover! Coming June 17, The Scrapbook is the story of two young lovers haunted by history and dark family legacies. It’s a different kind of World War II novel. Learn more: https://t.co/PCGFxZlMWW
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"Richardson portrays the peripatetic life of Matthiessen... not as an eclectic series of adventures but as a single, 86-year spiritual quest." @TheAtlantic
@lancerichardson
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I spoke with Lucy Jones, author of MATRESCENCE, about Sylvia Plath and motherhood. Airing today at 10:00 am EST and 15:00 UK
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The writer Sylvia Plath, chosen by Lucy Jones.
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Three months out! Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, and championed my debut novel, THE SCRAPBOOK.
nytimes.com
Heather Clark’s debut novel, “The Scrapbook,” considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.
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Excited to confirm more events for THE SCRAPBOOK this fall. I’ll be talking about war, memory, and dark inheritances at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, the Miami Book Fair, and elsewhere. Drop by if you can!
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The Polish translation of RED COMET, coming September 24th! ☄️
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@Plathbiography's THE SCRAPBOOK shines a light on what men bore witness to as soldiers in the Second World War. Read all about it:
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Heather Clark's 'The Scrapbook' shines a light on what men bore witness to as soldiers in the Second World War
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Delighted to share this author profile in the Irish Examiner. 🇮🇪 We cover my new novel, THE SCRAPBOOK, Northern Irish poets, combat PTSD, Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, my years in Ireland, and more. @irishexaminer
https://t.co/mLCa4JCOmA
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Spy, novelist, Zen master, environmentalist—#PeterMatthiessen’s life defied categories. In TRUE NATURE, @lancerichardson tells the story of a man always searching. https://t.co/5ZlTNd4owG Cover designer: Tyler Comrie
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Come hear me and Aria Aber at our debut fiction panel this fall at the Brattleboro Literary Festival! Honored to be on this incredible roster. https://t.co/ThqRLBrdRw
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Thanks @ShelfAwareness for choosing THE SCRAPBOOK as one of this week’s best books! “Heather Clark’s first novel is a finely wrought, subtle love story burdened by the weight of the past.”
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TLS: ‘Clark suggests that history never arrives as coherent narrative; it lingers instead in buildings and town squares … she offers us a novel of beautiful surfaces and uneasy depths, where love becomes a form of collective memory excavation and forgetting a kind of violence.’
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'Germany itself is a key figure in this book: a landscape of beguiling facades and crimes that cannot quite be buried.' Anna Katharina Schaffner (@AKSchaffner) on an inheritance of guilt https://t.co/ORI0rhTqzM
the-tls.com
In her elegant, calmly unsettling debut novel, Heather Clark illustrates how the cold shadow of German history bleeds constantly into the present, even in
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THE SCRAPBOOK in @TheTLS: “an elegant, calmly unsettling debut novel… illustrates how the cold shadow of German history bleeds constantly into the present, even in the most intimate spheres.” https://t.co/nS0k6jc0MB
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I’m in England for less than 48 hours but I had to come up to Yorkshire to pay my respects. ❤️
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So glad I had the chance to talk about THE SCRAPBOOK in Amsterdam!
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This Thursday - 10 July 2025, 6.30 p.m. - at Daunt Books Notting Hill, London: Heather Clark @Plathbiography in conversation with Bea Setton A few tickets are still available at: https://t.co/UNDL4pUXZo
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In which I write about how technology makes people lonely, then sells them a solution to loneliness in the form of technology. https://t.co/ghUOUo09Fd
nytimes.com
Artificial intelligence solutions are being pushed on customers that make them lonelier. That’s all part of the plan.
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Best reviewed books this week, according to BookMarks, includes THE SCRAPBOOK by Heather Clark! @Plathbiography Have you read it, yet? https://t.co/Ywtkfa9Px0
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Featuring Catherine Lacey, Michelle Huneven, ABBA, and more
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