Linda Gray Sexton

For other people named Linda Gray, see Linda Gray (disambiguation).

Linda Gray Sexton (born 1953 ^[1] ) is an American writer. ^{[2] [3]}

Early life

She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton. ^[4] She graduated from Harvard College in 1975. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

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. ^[8] 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". ^{[8] [9] [10]}

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." ^[11]

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

1. "The Author's Biography". Linda Gray Sexton. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
2. "Literary Women | Festival of Authors | Past Authors". literarywomen.org.
3. "SEXTON ON SEXTON | Arts | The Harvard Crimson". The Harvard Crimson .
4. Sexton (2004) p. 22
5. "An Interview with Linda Gray Sexton". Fugue (magazine) .
6. "An Old Gray Ghost: An Interview with Linda Gray Sexton". The Collidescope. 11 October 2020.
7. Ramos, Emma Eden (25 November 2015). "Interview with Linda Gray Sexton". Women Writers, Women's Books.
8. 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.
9. International, Hektoen (20 March 2018). "The legacy of Mercy Street Seekers - Hektoen International". Hektoen International.
10. Miller, Michael Vincent (20 November 1994). "Surviving Anne Sexton". The New York Times .
11. Russo, Maria (7 January 2011). "In Suicide's Shadow". The New York Times .

External links

• Official website