Anne Sexton Timeline

Poetry and Prose (collections and novels)

• Uncompleted Novel-started in the 1960s
• To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
• The Starry Night (1961)
• All My Pretty Ones (1962)
• Live or Die (1966) – Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967
• Love Poems (1969)
• Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969)
• Transformations (1971)
• The Book of Folly (1972)
• The Death Notebooks (1974)
• The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous)
• 45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous)
• Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous)
• Words for Dr. Y. (1978)
• No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews and Prose, edited by Steven E. Colburn (1985)