| Anne Sexton  AKA Anne Gray Harvey
Born: 9-Nov-1928
Birthplace: Newton, MA
Died: 4-Oct-1974
Location of death: Weston, MA
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Live or Die Father: Ralph Churchill Harvey (manufacturer, d. 1959)
Mother: Mary Gray Staples (d. 1959)
Husband: Alfred Murray Sexton II (m. 1948)
Daughter: Linda Gray Sexton
Daughter: Joyce Ladd Sexton
High School: Rogers Hall, Lowell, MA
University: Garland Junior College (one year)
University: Boston University
Professor: Boston University (1970-71)
Professor: Colgate University (1971-72)
Phi Beta Kappa Society honorary (11-Jun-1968)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1967 for Live or Die
Abortion
Nervous Breakdown 1954
Nervous Breakdown 1955
Suicide Attempt 1956
Suicide Attempt May-1957
Lost Child Custody
Nervous Breakdown 1963
Risk Factors: Depression
Author of books:
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960, poetry)
All My Pretty Ones (1962, poetry)
Live or Die (1966, poetry)
Love Poems (1969, poetry)
Transformations (1971, poetry)
The Book of Folly (1972, poetry)
The Death Notebooks (1974, poetry)
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975, poetry)
45 Mercy Street (1976, poetry)
Uncollected Poems with Three Stories (1978, poetry)
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (1985)
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