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News

The Scrapbook is:

One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated 2025 Books

One of The Los Angeles Times’ 30 Must-Read Books for Summer

One of The Boston Globe’s Best Summer 2025 Books

One of People’s Best Books of June 2025

One of Foreign Policy’s “Novels We’re Reading in June”

One of The Herald’s Best New Books to Read

One of Zibby Owens’ Summer Reads Pick

One of Bookpage‘s Top Ten July Reads

One of Shelf Awareness‘s Best Books of the Week

Featured:


Irish Examiner Profile

New York Times Book Review Profile

Publishers Weekly Feature

The Scrapbook is one of BookMarks’ best reviewed books 

The Scrapbook is one of People Magazine‘s top 3 picks!

As biographers, we speak for the dead – The Madrid Review

Foreign Policy Magazine features THE SCRAPBOOK in “What We’re Reading in June”

THE SCRAPBOOK made the Boston Globe Best Summer Reads list!

THE SCRAPBOOK made the LA Times 30 Summer Must Reads list

THE SCRAPBOOK has been chosen as a Zibby Summer Reads


Publishers Weekly: The Scrapbook gets starred review in Publishers Weekly

The Millions: The Scrapbook made The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Books list

Red Comet was just named one of the Best Books of the 21st century by KirkusThe Leon Levy Center for Biography presents: Adam Plunkett & Heather Clark on Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

The Bookseller: Jonathan Cape signs Pulitzer Prize finalist Heather Clark’s debut novel in exclusive submission

Brooklyn Institute & Strand Present: Samantha Rose Hill + Heather Clark – What Remains

NYPL: Meet the 2024–2025 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Guggenheim Fellow: Heather Clark

The Atlantic: This Week in Books: Sylvia Plath Continues to Fascinate

New Yorker: What We’re Reading This Summer

Esquire: The 50 Best Biographies of All Time

Iowa Writers’ Workshop: The 2022 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021

New York Times: Announcing the 10 Best Books of 2021: A New York Times Event

BBC Interview: Rewriting the story of the poet who took her own life

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‘GMA’ Book Club: Glennon Doyle shares her 2020 book picks to gift for the holidays

BBC Radio 3: “Free Thinking”

Bookpage: Fall’s biggest biographies

Washington Post: 10 books to read in October

Christian Science Monitor: Make an October date with Eleanor Roosevelt, Cary Grant, Sylvia Plath

New York Times: 17 New Books to Watch For in October

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Top books to look forward to this autumn

St Louis Post-Dispatch: Fall book preview: Authors deliver the goods with onslaught of political, fictional titles

Entertainment Weekly: The best books of fall 2020

USA Today: 20 new books to read this fall, from Mariah Carey, Jonathan Lethem, Megan Rapinoe, more

The Lit Hub 2020 Fall Preview

The Boston Globe: 20 Books We’re Excited for This Fall

Wall Street Journal: Martin Amis, Mariah Carey, Dolly Parton Prepare to Tell Their Stories

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