OFFSITE – An Evening with Heather Clark, Author of The Scrapbook: A Novel

Join us for an evening with Heather Clark as she presents an overview of her new novel “The Scrapbook” and shares photos from her grandfather’s wartime scrapbook and of her research trip to Germany (Dachau, Munich, Berchtesgaden) in the summer of 2023. A Q&A will follow.

“The Scrapbook” is a novel of love and war that moves between the 1990s and 1940s. It tells the story of Anna, an American, and Christoph, a German, and their grandfathers, who fought on opposite sides during World War Two. Most of the novel is set in Germany and told by Anna, though some chapters follow Anna’s and Christoph’s grandfathers as they fight in Bavaria and Belarus.

About the Author:

Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic and novelist. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship, and a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship. She is the author of five books, including “Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021. Clark’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Lit Hub, Poetry, and The Times Literary Supplement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard and a doctorate in English from Oxford.

Registration is required.

Copies of the author’s book will be available for purchase from Maxima Book Center on the evening of the event.