Poet Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide in Alaska
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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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.

Media outlets described the death as another in a long line of tragedy for the family.

Hughes was only one year old when his mother famously gassed herself to death in 1963, soon after her relationship with Ted Hughes ended. In 1969, Ted Hughes' mistress killed herself and their daughter in a copycat suicide.

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.

“His lifelong fascination with fish and fishing was a strong and shared bond with our father (many of whose poems were about the natural world)," his sister, Frieda Hughes, said in a statement given to the press.

"He was a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him and, despite the vagaries that life threw at him, he maintained an almost childlike innocence and enthusiasm for the next project or plan," she said.

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.”