| Ted
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 17 Aug 1930
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Date of death - 1998 |
| Place of birth
- Mytholmroyd, near Hebden Bridge : Calder Valley, Yorkshire |
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Ted Hughes was born 17 August 1930 in 1. Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, a small coal-mining town near Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, Yorkshire, where his parents ran the local newsagent's shop.
In 1948 he won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge but completed two years' National Service in the RAF before going to University.
After graduating, he worked as a gardener, a night-watchman and a script reader before becoming a teacher.
In 1956 he married the American poet Sylvia Plath and they went to the USA the following year. They both taught there and attended a writers' colony before returning to England at the end of 1959.
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Sylvia committed suicide in 1963 and Hughes married his second wife, Carol Orchard, in 1970.
For several years from 1963 onwards he published next to no new poetry for adults, for which he had made is his name. However, though writing reviews and criticism for newspapers and magazines, he seems to have concentrated on his output for children as well as on his children themselves.
How the Whale Became, his first collection of fable-like stories for children, and The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People, a remarkable collection of poems set on a Moon at ?the bottom of our dreams, were both published in November 1963. Notably, and similar to what happened to major themes in his works for adults, Hughes continued to develop the main thematic strands of both books. |
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