Background
Sexton was born in 1946 in Haileybury, Ontario and attended Haileybury High School and Havergal College.
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She enrolled in Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1965 and graduated from Laurentian University in 1968. After teaching high school for five years, she entered Osgoode Hall Law School where she obtained an Bachelor of Laws in 1976, the same year she received an Master of Arts in English from York University.
Career
During her career at The Globe and Mail, she was known as Canada"s most influential social columnist. Sexton began her career in education after attending the Ontario College of Education. Sexton was called to the Ontario Bar in 1978 and worked as a tax lawyer before becoming a censor for the Ontario Censor Board.
She left the field of law and became a stay-at-home mother, where she spent about 10 years prior to starting her writing career.
During that decade, she served on the board of multiple charities including Family Day Care Services, Canadian Psychiatric Awareness Committee, Toronto Pops Orchestra, Wellesley Hospital Volunteer Committee, and the Toronto Symphony Women"s Committee. Sexton’s career in writing began when she became a columnist for The Globe and Mail in 1988.
She was hired to succeed Zena Cherry and wrote a society column three times a week until 1993. lieutenant was in 1993 that she published the book The Glitter Girls, a Canadian bestseller, and followed up with the book Confessions of a Society Columnist in 1995.
Home Before Dark was published in May 2014.
In addition to her work at The Globe and Mail and her published works, she was a regular contributor to the National Post as well as writing for Maclean"s Magazine. Bibliography 1995, Confessions of a Society Columnist, Macmillan Canada, 1993, The Glitter Girls, Macmillan, 2014, Home Before Dark, Kayak Press.
