Linda Gray Sexton (born 1953[1]) is an American writer.
She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton.
In 1994, she wrote her memoirs of growing up with her mother, titled Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton.
[3] Michiko Kakutani, reviewing it, wrote "while Anne Sexton often comes across as a truly monstrous mother, there are also passages of great tenderness in this book ... she writes with compelling urgency and candor".
She wrote another memoir, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in 2011, and Erica Jong has written "Linda Sexton’s beautiful book is a cry for health and sanity.