Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Poet Anne Sexton (1928-1975) was the author of many collections of poems, including To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), All My Pretty Ones (1962), and Live or Die (1966), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Known for her confessional verse, Sexton suffered a nervous breakdown following the births of her daughter Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd Sexton. She was encouraged by her doctor to pursue an interest in writing poetry that she had developed during high school. In 1957 she joined a poetry workshop where she met poet Maxine Kumin and began an 18-year career, publishing eight books of poetry and one play. Her poems offered readers an intimate view of the anguish that characterized her life, which ended in suicide in 1974. For further biographical information, see Anne Sexton: A Biography (1991) by Diane Wood Middlebrook.. }
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- catalog description "Poet Anne Sexton (1928-1975) was the author of many collections of poems, including To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), All My Pretty Ones (1962), and Live or Die (1966), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Known for her confessional verse, Sexton suffered a nervous breakdown following the births of her daughter Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd Sexton. She was encouraged by her doctor to pursue an interest in writing poetry that she had developed during high school. In 1957 she joined a poetry workshop where she met poet Maxine Kumin and began an 18-year career, publishing eight books of poetry and one play. Her poems offered readers an intimate view of the anguish that characterized her life, which ended in suicide in 1974. For further biographical information, see Anne Sexton: A Biography (1991) by Diane Wood Middlebrook.".