The son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has committed suicide. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Fairbanks , Alaska on March 16, after a long battle with depression . Hughes was 47 at the time of his death. The grave of poet Sylvia Plath , the mother of Nicholas Hughes who committed suicide on March 16.Nicholas Hughes, who was not married and had no children, was an evolutionary ecologist who studied stream fish. He had been a professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks until recently, when he he left the post to set up a pottery at home. Near the end of her life, Sylvia Plath wrote poems about Nicholas Hughes, including one entitled "Nick and the Candlestick" from her collection, Ariel , which reads: “You are the one/ Solid the spaces lean on, envious./ You are the baby in the barn.”
The son of poets and has committed suicide. hanged himself at his home in , Alaska on March 16, after a long battle with . Hughes was 47 at the time of his death. The grave of poet , the mother of Nicholas Hughes who committed suicide on March 16.Nicholas Hughes, who was not married and had no children, was an who studied stream fish. He had been a professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the until recently, when he he left the post to set up a at home. Near the end of her life, Sylvia Plath wrote poems about Nicholas Hughes, including one entitled "Nick and the Candlestick" from her collection, , which reads: “You are the one/ Solid the spaces lean on, envious./ You are the baby in the barn.”
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