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From the Archives: Two Decades Later, Linda Gray Sexton Comes to Term with Her Mother's Death.

Author Linda Gray Sexton's book Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton is out in paperback, [Little, Brown]. She spent a long time coming to terms with her relationship with her mother who committed suicide in 1974. [Originally aired 10/10/94]

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 2, 1996: Interview with Diane Wood Middlebrook; Interview with Linda Gray Sexton; Interview with Maggie Estep; Review of the television mini-series "Gulliver's…
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From the Archives: Diane Wood Middlebrook's Controversial Biography of Anne Sexton.

Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook. She wrote a controversial book about the troubled writer Anne Sexton. The controversy surrounded Middlebrook's source material: she had access to transcripts of Sexton's psychiatric sessions with the approval of Sexton's daughter and psychiatrist. Sexton killed herself in 1974. Sexton began writing poetry in 1956 following a suicidal breakdown and after her therapist suggested she try writing poetry. Anne Sexton: A Biography, was published by Houghton Mifflin and is now a paperback. [Originally aired 8/30/91].

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From the Archives: Performance Artist Maggie Estep.

Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist Maggie Estep. Estep calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." Her debut album was "No More Mr. Nice Girl." NUYO Records. [Originally aired 6/23/94].

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Diane Wood Middlebrook's Controversial Biography of Anne Sexton.

Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook. She's written a controversial new book about the troubled writer Anne Sexton. The controversy surrounds Middlebrook's source material: she had access to transcripts of Sexton's psychiatric sessions with the approval of Sexton's daughter and psychiatrist. Sexton killed herself in 1974. She began writing poetry in 1956 following a suicidal breakdown and after her therapist suggested she try writing poetry. ("Anne Sexton: A Biography," published by Houghton Mifflin).

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