Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was one of the most influential poets of the century and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of a heart attack. Hughes's brother, Nicholas Hughes, died by suicide on 16 March 2009. Wikipedia