Complex sentence: His father, Sebastian Hinton, was a lawyer who committed suicide; his mother, Carmelita Hinton, was an educator and the founder of The Putney School, an independent progressive school in Vermont.
Split into simpler sentences: His father, Sebastian Hinton, was a lawyer who committed suicide. His mother, Carmelita Hinton, was an educator and the founder of The Putney School, an independent progressive school in Vermont.