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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry often drew on her experiences with mental illness, including bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation, as well as aspects of her personal life. She was known for blending fairy tales, mythology, and religious imagery with autobiographi…

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culture · American poet (1928–1974) · poet · writer · children's writer · librettist · also Anne Sexton, Anne Gray Harvey, Sexton

Born 9 November 1928 · Died 4 October 1974 · Q270728

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“Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound”

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“You All Know the Story of the Other Woman”

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“Letter Written During a January Northeaster”

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Aug 23, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“We who are alive must make clear, as she could not, the distinction between creativity and self-destruction.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record69% confidence

iHeart: Hour 2 - Cancelling Cancel Culture - The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM: Hour 2 - Cancelling Cancel Culture | Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM | The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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1994· 1 entry

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Published her autobiography Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, which includes her own accounts of the abuse

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1974· 4 entries

Oct 4, 1974Documented record86% confidence

Died 1974-10-04.

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Oct 4, 1974Documented record70% confidence

Sexton had lunch with Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton's manuscript of The Awful Rowing Toward God, scheduled for publication in March 1975 (Middlebrook 396)

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Jan 1, 1974Documented record75% confidence

“Admonitions to a Special Person”

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“We are all writing God's poem.”

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1969· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1969).

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1967· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1967Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Shelley Memorial Award (1967).

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Jun 15, 1967Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1967).

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1963· 1 entry

1963Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In TriQuarterly magazine, before being published in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Live or Die, in 1966

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1960· 1 entry

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And explored the taboos surrounding mental illness

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1957· 1 entry

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Sexton attended her first communal poetry workshop at the Boston Centre for Adult Education run by John Holmes

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1955· 1 entry

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Her postpartum depression worsened and she attempted suicide for the first time, which resulted in her being institutionalised in Westwood Lodge in 1956

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1953· 1 entry

1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Sexton started to suffer from postpartum depression and symptoms of bipolar disorder which was diagnosed in 1954

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1948· 1 entry

Aug 16, 1948Documented record70% confidence

Married Alfred Muller Sexton II and they remained together until 1973

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school in Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School

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1928· 1 entry

Nov 9, 1928Documented record86% confidence

Born 1928-11-09.

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