Anne Sexton

Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928, into a well-off family; her father ran a wool business. Married at nineteen to Alfred Sexton, she worked as a model. After the birth of her second daughter, her psychiatrist encouraged her to write: she was twenty-eight and had no literary training. She attended John Holmes's workshop, then in Boston Robert Lowell's seminar, where she met Sylvia Plath. She published seven collections from 1960 to 1974, taught at Boston University, and died in Weston in 1974, aged forty-five.

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• PoetryLive or DieAnne Sexton · 1966Literature