Linda Gray Sexton

Linda Gray Sexton (born July 21, 1953) 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, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton.

She has also written several novels and edited posthumous editions of her mother's works.^[2] She wrote a subsequent memoir, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in January 2011, about which 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

1. Sexton (2004) p. 22
2. Kakutani (14 October 1994)

Sources

• Official website
• 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

• Linda Sexton at Library of Congress Authorities, with 12 catalog records