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Sexton's Major Works Include:

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
Live or Die (1966)
Love Poems (1969)
Transformations (1971)
The Book of Folly (1972)
The Death Notebooks (1974)
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters (1977) - Edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames.
Words for Dr. Y: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories (1978) - Edited by Linda Gray Sexton.
The Complete Poems (1981) - Foreword by Maxine Kumin.
Selected Poems (1988)

Awards Accumulated By Sexton Include:

Robert Frost Fellowship to attend Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1959;
First scholar in poetry at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, 1961;
Levinson Prize from Poetry, 1962;
Nominated for National Book Award, 1963;
Traveling Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1963;
Ford Foundation Grant, 1963;
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London, 1965;
The International Congress of Cultural Freedom's literary magazine travel award, 1965;
Pulitzer Prize for Live Or Die, 1967;
Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America, 1967;
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa award from Harvard, 1968;
Honorary Phi beta Kappa award from Radcliffe, 1969;
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969;
Honorary Doctor of Letter from Tufts, 1970;
Honorary Doctor of Letter from Fairfield, 1972;
Honorary Doctor of Letter from Regis, 1973



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