Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Harvey. She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School. For a time she modeled for Boston`s Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Sexton and they remained together until 1973. She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd.
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 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969), published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X
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)
Kirjanduse, luule ja kultuuri kodu. Kirjuta ja naudi artikleid, esseesid, proosat, klassikalist luulet ja võistlusi.
Soovitame Lugeda
