He married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years older than he was. They got married when she was 26 and him only 18. They had a rushed wedding due to Anne already being pregnant. He had three children, Susanna (married John Hall), Hamnet Shakespeare (died at the age of 11 due to unknown reasons) and Judith (married Thomas Quiney). By 1592 he had become an actor and was becoming well known as a writer of plays. At the time of his death in 1616, only some of his plays had been published in single editions. The plays were collected and published in 1623, seven years after he died.