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Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. [ 1] He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was educated first at Charterhouse ...
Richard Hughes (born April 19, 1900, Weybridge, Surrey, England—died April 28, 1976, near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales) was a British writer whose novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929; filmed 1965; original title The Innocent Voyage) is a minor classic of 20th-century English literature.
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May 18, 2018 · The British author Richard Hughes (1900-1976) rose to fame in the late 1920s and 1930s upon the publication of his best-selling and critically acclaimed first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica.
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
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- April 28, 1976
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Nov 22, 2009 · Richard Hughes first came to public attention in 1917, at the age of 17, when his schoolmaster sent one of his essays to The Spectator. He wrote the world's first radio play, called Danger,...
British novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Richard Hughes through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the son of a civil servant. He was educated at Charterhouse, and in 1917, a schoolmaster sent one of his essays to The Spectator, where it was published.
