Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Path of Sylvia Plath. This acclaimed  new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Massachusetts (born in Jamaica Plain, but raised mostly in…