What is Ted Hughes?
[[File:Poet Ted HughesDCP 2068.JPG|thumb|A portrait of Ted Hughes by Reginald Gray]] '''Ted Hughes''' [[OM]], (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an [[English people|English]] [[poet]] and writer of [[children's literature|children's stories]]. He was born in Mytholmroyd, West Riding of [[Yorkshire]]. He was married to the [[Americans|American]] poet [[Sylvia Plath]] from 1956 until her [[suicide]] in 1963. From 1984 until his death, he was the British [[Poet Laureate]]. He died of [[colorectal cancer]] in [[London]], aged 68. He wrote a book called The Iron Man which inspired the movie [[The Iron Giant]]. ==Other websites== * [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/113 Hughes at poets.org] {{bio-stub}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hughes, Ted}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:1998 deaths]] [[Category:British poets laureate]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in England]] [[Category:Deaths from colorectal cancer]] [[Category:English poets]] [[Category:Order of Merit]] [[Category:People from West Yorkshire]] [[Category:Writers from Yorkshire]]