Quick Facts

• NAME: Anne Sexton
• OCCUPATION: Poet
• BIRTH DATE: November 09, 1928
• DEATH DATE: October 04, 1974
• EDUCATION: Boston University, The Garland School
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Newton, Massachusetts
• PLACE OF DEATH: Weston, Massachusetts
• Maiden Name: Anne Gray Harvey
• Full Name: Anne Sexton

Best Known For

Poet Anne Sexton wrote the collections To Bedlam and Part Way Back, as well as Live or Die, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She committed suicide in 1974.