Monday, March 23, 2009

Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide


Nicholas Hughes, son of Sylvia Plath, commits suicide
Forty six years after his mother, iconic poet Sylvia Plath, committed suicide by gassing herself, her son, Nicholas Hughes has also taken his own life.

Digested classics: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It was the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs. I couldn't stop wondering what it would be like to be burned alive.
Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes, 47, has committed suicide. Carolyn Kellogg has more on our book blog, Jacket Copy. -- Within the next few days, ...
VIDEO: Local artists bring Sylvia Plath to life in critically ...
By Allison Cooper, staff writer Marcy Savastano is haunting when she channels Sylvia Plath. Savastano opens her monologue with a chilling foreshadowing of ...
THEATER REVIEW: "Edge"
"Edge" is a one-woman show in which Marcy Savastano portrays poet Sylvia Plath on the last day of her life. It's a little more complicated than that

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide, 46 years after ...
By Mail Foreign Service The son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has committed suicide 46 years after his mother gassed herself to death while he slept

Time to start talking and listening again
She sifts carefully through the stories and the evidence, mixing profiles of high-fliers Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolfe, plus "ordinary"
Blizzard of lunacy

How about Edgar Allen Poe, Lord Byron or Sylvia Plath? But Sharplin's diabolically clever play (subtitled A Mystery) neatly moves beyond the cliche.

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