Anne Sexton biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Anne Sexton

Author Name:

Anne Sexton

Born As:

Anne Gray Harvey

Other Names:

Born:

09 Nov 1928

Died:

04 Oct 1974




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Poet                          
Selected Works:

Poetry and Prose - collections and novels:

Uncompleted Novel - started in the 1960s
To Bedlam and Part Way Back - 1960
The Starry Night - 1961
All My Pretty Ones - 1962
Live or Die - 1966 - Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967
Love Poems - 1969
Mercy Street, a 2act play performed at the American Place Theatre - 1969
Transformations - 1971
The Book of Folly - 1972
The Death Notebooks - 1974
The Awful Rowing Toward God - 1975; posthumous
45 Mercy Street - 1976; posthumous
Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames - 1977; posthumous
Words for Dr. Y. - 1978; posthumous
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews and Prose, edited by Steven E. Colburn - 1985; posthumous

Children's books: All co-written with Maxine Kumin:

1963 - Eggs of Things - illustrated by Leonard Shortall
1964 - More Eggs of Things - illustrated by Leonard Shortall
1974 - Joey and the Birthday Present - illustrated by Evaline Ness
1975 - The Wizard's Tears - illustrated by Evaline Ness.                          
Mother Mary Gray Staples
Father Ralph Harvey
Husband Alfred Sexton, two children.                          
                          
Committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.