Linda Gray Sexton (born 1953[1]) is an American writer.
Early life
She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton.[2] She graduated from Harvard College in 1975.
Career
In 1994, she wrote her memoirs of growing up with her mother, titled Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton.
She has written several novels and edited posthumous editions of her mother's works.[3] She wrote another memoir, titled Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in January 2011, and Erica Jong has written "Linda Sexton’s beautiful book is a cry for health and sanity. It will bring hope and understanding because it explains the way suicide blights families from generation to generation.”
Bibliography
- Between Two Worlds: Young Women in Crisis (1979) [non-fiction]
- Rituals (1983) [novel]
- Points of Light: A Novel (1988)
- Mirror Images (1990) [novel]
- Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters (with Lois Ames, 1992)
- Private Acts (1993)[novel]
- Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton (1994) [memoir]
- Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide (2011) [memoir]
- Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians (2014)
References
- ↑ "The Author's Biography". Linda Gray Sexton. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
- ↑ Sexton (2004) p. 22
- ↑ Kakutani (14 October 1994)
Sources
- Kakutani, Michiko, "A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam", The New York Times, October 14, 1994
- Sexton, Anne, Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters, edited and annotated by Lois Ames and Linda Gray Sexton, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. ISBN 0-618-49242-9
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