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Anne Sexton
Title: Anne Sexton
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 822 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Anne Sexton
Anne Gray Harvey was born into an upper-middle class family in Newton, Massachusetts
on November 9, 1928. She attended Rogers Preparatory School and a Boston finishing
school known as The Garland School. In 1948, she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton just
a few months before her twentieth birthday. Anne Sexton received a scholarship from the
Hart Agency in Boston, and worked there as a model for a brief time. Sexton later moved
from Boston to Baltimore, back to …showed first 75 words of 822 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 822 total…that year, Fairfeild University awarded
Sexton an honorary Doctor of Letters.
In 1973, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Regis College, served on the
Pulitzer Prize jury, and lectured at Breadloaf Writer's Conference. An operatic adaptation
of her work, TRANSFORMATIONS, was performed in Minneapolis. Sexton divorced her
husband and was hospitalized at both McLean's Hospital in August and Human Resources
Institute later in the year.
Bibliography
Encyclopedias Encarta and Brittannica and Salvat and Hispanica.
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