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Anne Sexton

1928 - 1974

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Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life, including relationships with her husband and children, whom she physically and sexually assaulted. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Sexton is the 1,704th most popular writer (up from 1,854th in 2019), the 2,485th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 201st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Anne Sexton ranks 1,704 out of 7,302Before her are James Brendan Connolly, Enzo of Sardinia, Mateo Alemán, Ole Nydahl, John Gray, and Aleksandr Kuprin. After her are Friedrich Rückert, Konstantin Paustovsky, Jens Fink-Jensen, Didymus Chalcenterus, Chico Xavier, and Denis Fonvizin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Anne Sexton ranks 133Before her are Hayden White, James Randi, Al Lettieri, Desmond Morris, Sol LeWitt, and Edward Albee. After her are Sid Watkins, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Peter Naur, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Pancho Gonzales, and Frank Borman. Among people deceased in 1974, Anne Sexton ranks 58Before her are Everaldo, Vannevar Bush, Marcel Achard, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Junio Valerio Borghese, and Agnes Moorehead. After her are Pietro Germi, Vladimir Fock, Candy Darling, Samuel Goldwyn, James J. Braddock, and Nikolai Kuznetsov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Sexton ranks 2,485 out of 20,380Before her are James Brendan Connolly (1868), John Gray (1951), John Romita Sr. (1930), Richard Dix (1893), Hank Williams (1923), and Agnes Moorehead (1900). After her are Marc Anthony (1968), Don Rosa (1951), Aaron Eckhart (1968), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), Paul Bowles (1910), and Dan White (1946).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Sexton ranks 201Before her are Dean Koontz (1945), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Michael Cunningham (1952), Edward Albee (1928), James Brendan Connolly (1868), and John Gray (1951). After her are Patricia Cornwell (1956), Johnston McCulley (1883), Jack Vance (1916), Rick Riordan (1964), Bob Woodward (1943), and Nora Ephron (1941).