infinity–land: “Anne Sexton is regarded as one of the most talented writers of the 20th century. Her poems are autobiographical in nature, and focus on her struggles with severe bipolar disorder. She spent much of her adult life in and out of...

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Anne Sexton is regarded as one of the most talented writers of the 20th century. Her poems are autobiographical in nature, and focus on her struggles with severe bipolar disorder. She spent much of her adult life in and out of psychiatric hospitals and wrote about these experiences in detail, as well as her devolving relationships with her husband and children, which were strained by her mental illness. Over the course of her lifetime she won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as the Frost Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Levinson Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters traveling fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Tragically at the age of 45, Anne Sexton committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. She removed her jewelry, put on her mothers fur coat, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her garage and started her car.
She is remembered as one of the most prolific and accomplished writers in American history, and paved the way for many female writers.