Linda Gray Sexton is an American writer.

Early life

She was born in

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, the elder daughter of poet

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book '' Live or Die''. Her poetry details ...

and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton.

Career

In 1994, she wrote her

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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.Kakutani (14 October 1994) She wrote another memoir, titled ''Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide'', published in January 2011, and

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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) on-fiction*''Rituals'' (1983)

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*''Points of Light: A Novel'' (1988) *''Mirror Images'' (1990)

*''Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters'' (with Lois Ames, 1992) *''Private Acts'' (1993)

*''Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton'' (1994) emoir*''Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide'' (2011) emoir*''Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians'' (2014)

References

Sources

* Kakutani, Michiko
"A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam"
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'', 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.

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