Linda Gray Sexton Explained

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

Early life

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

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."

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Author's Biography . 2023-07-08 . Linda Gray Sexton . en-US.
  2. Sexton (2004) p. 22
  3. News: Kakutani . Michiko . BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam . 17 August 2024 . The New York Times . 14 October 1994 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110527084057/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/books/books-of-the-times-a-daughter-revisits-sexton-s-bedlam.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print . 27 May 2011.