Report: Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

Mar 23rd, 2009 - MSNBC

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Report: Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

LONDON - Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after Assia Wevill, who continued a relationship with his father after Plath’s death, did the same. He was 47.

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