Born on November 9, 1928, in Newton, Massachusetts, Anne Harvey attended Garland Junior College for a year before her marriage in August 1948 to Alfred M. Sexton II. They lived in New York and Massachusetts for some years and in Baltimore and San Francisco while Alfred Sexton served in the navy during the Korean War. She worked at various times as a fashion model and as a librarian. In 1954 they settled in Newton. Although she had written some poetry in childhood, it was not until the later 1950s that she began to write seriously. Her poems, showing the influence of Robert Lowell, appeared in Harper╒s, the New Yorker, Partisan Review, and other periodicals, and her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in 1960. 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. Their imagery was frequently brilliant, and their tone was both mocking and vulnerable.
In 1961╨1963 Anne Sexton was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. Her second book of poems, All My Pretty Ones, appeared in 1962 and continued in the vein of uncompromising self-exploration. In 1964╨1965 she held a traveling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her Selected Poems was published in 1964. Live or Die, 1966, won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed by Poems by Thomas Kinsella, Douglas Livingstone and Anne Sexton, 1968, Love Poems, 1969, Transformations, 1971, The Book of Folly, 1972, The Death Notebooks, 1974, The Awful Rowing Toward God, 1975, and 45 Mercy Street, edited by her daughter, Linda Gray Sexton, and published posthumously in 1976. She taught at Boston University in 1970╨1971 and at Colgate University in 1971╨1972. In 1969 her play Mercy Street was produced at the American Place Theatre in New York City. She also wrote a number of children╒s books with Maxine W. Kumin, including Eggs of Things, 1963, More Eggs of Things, 1964, Joey and the Birthday Present, 1971, and The Wizard╒s Tears, 1975. She took her own life on October 4, 1974, in Weston, Massachusetts.
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