Linda Gray Sexton is an American writer.

Early life

She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton.[1]

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.[2] 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

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

External links

• Official website

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