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Linda Gray Sexton

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Linda Gray Sexton (born 1953[1]) is an American writer.

Early life

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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

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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.[3] Michiko Kakutani, reviewing it, wrote "while Anne Sexton often comes across as a truly monstrous mother, there are also passages of great tenderness in this book ... she writes with compelling urgency and candor".[3]

Linda Gray Sexton has written several novels and edited posthumous editions of her mother's works. She wrote another memoir, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in 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."[citation needed]

Bibliography

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "The Author's Biography". Linda Gray Sexton. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
  2. ^ Sexton (2004) p. 22
  3. ^ a b Kakutani, Michiko (14 October 1994). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
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