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1928 - Born on November 9th in Newton, Massachusetts. An American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity.
1947 - Anne Harvey attended Garland Junior College for a year.
1948 - She was married to Alfred M. Sexton II.
1950 - She had written some poetry in childhood and later began to write seriously.
1960 - Her poems, which showed Lowell's influence, appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and other periodicals, and her first book, "To Bedlam and Part Way Back", was published.
- The book won immediate attention because of the intensely personal and relentlessly honest self-revelatory nature of the poems recording her nervous breakdown and recovery.
1962 - Her second book of poems, "All My Pretty Ones", continued in the vein of uncompromising self-exploration.
1966-1969 - "Live or Die", a further record of emotional illness, won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed by Love Poems. (1972), and The Death Notebooks (1974).
1970-1972 - Sexton taught at Boston University and at Colgate University.
- She also wrote a number of children's books with poet Maxine Kumin, including "Eggs of Things", "Joey and the Birthday Present", and "The Wizard's Tears".
- She wrote "Transformations" and "The Book of Folly".
1974 - She died on October 4th in Weston, Massachusetts. Sexton died by her own hand.
1975-1985 - "The Awful Rowing Toward God", "45 Mercy Street" (edited by her daughter, Linda Gray Sexton), and "Uncollected Poems with Three Stories" were published posthumously.
- "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters", edited by Lois Ames and Linda Gray Sexton, was published and "No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose".
1947 - Anne Harvey attended Garland Junior College for a year.
1948 - She was married to Alfred M. Sexton II.
1950 - She had written some poetry in childhood and later began to write seriously.
1960 - Her poems, which showed Lowell's influence, appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and other periodicals, and her first book, "To Bedlam and Part Way Back", was published.
- The book won immediate attention because of the intensely personal and relentlessly honest self-revelatory nature of the poems recording her nervous breakdown and recovery.
1962 - Her second book of poems, "All My Pretty Ones", continued in the vein of uncompromising self-exploration.
1966-1969 - "Live or Die", a further record of emotional illness, won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed by Love Poems. (1972), and The Death Notebooks (1974).
1970-1972 - Sexton taught at Boston University and at Colgate University.
- She also wrote a number of children's books with poet Maxine Kumin, including "Eggs of Things", "Joey and the Birthday Present", and "The Wizard's Tears".
- She wrote "Transformations" and "The Book of Folly".
1974 - She died on October 4th in Weston, Massachusetts. Sexton died by her own hand.
1975-1985 - "The Awful Rowing Toward God", "45 Mercy Street" (edited by her daughter, Linda Gray Sexton), and "Uncollected Poems with Three Stories" were published posthumously.
- "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters", edited by Lois Ames and Linda Gray Sexton, was published and "No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose".
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