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Linda Gray Sexton (born 1953) is an American writer. Early life She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton. 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. She has written several novels and edited posthumous editions of her mother's works. She wrote another memoir, titled Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in January 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 Between Two Worlds: Young Women in Crisis (1979) [non-fiction] Rituals (1983) [novel] Points of Light: A Novel (1988) Mirror Images (1990) [novel] Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters (with Lois Ames, 1992) Private Acts (1993)[novel] Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton (1994) [memoir] Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide (2011) [memoir] Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians (2014) References Sources Kakutani, Michiko, "A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam", The New York Times, October 14, 1994 Sexton, Anne, Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters, edited and annotated by Lois Ames and Linda Gray Sexton, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. ISBN 0-618-49242-9 External links Official website . Discover the Linda Gray Sexton popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Linda Gray Sexton books.

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    Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

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    Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles TimesA vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th centurySylvia Plath and Anne Sextonbeca...