Poetic Obituaries: Indeed, some of his [Nicholas Hughes'] colleagues

in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, worked with him for years without knowing he was the son of two major 20th-century poets.

All that changed on March 16.

It was sunny, the temperature hovering just below zero, and Mr. Hughes seemed in good spirits. For years he had battled depression, as his mother had, and on a recent trip to New Zealand he had even talked of suicide. But he had endured other low periods, leaning on close friends, getting medical help and managing his illness with exercise and regular winter migrations to New Zealand's sunnier climes. At his cabin that afternoon, he drank tea with his girlfriend, Christine M. Hunter.

from The New York Times: A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy

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