FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Hughes, the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, committed suicide by hanging himself, according to police and his sister. He was 47.
Hughes, who was not married and had no children, killed himself at his home March 16, Alaska State Troopers said.
He had suffered from depression, his sister, Frieda, told The Times of London.
Ted Hughes' publisher in London, Faber and Faber, said the sister went to Alaska after the death.
The death adds another chapter to the family's tragic history. Plath committed suicide in 1963, shortly after her turbulent relationship with Ted Hughes ended. Her son had just turned 1 year old.
Ted Hughes had left her for another woman, and spent years battling feminists who blamed him for her death
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