| Richard
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| Nationality - Welsh |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 19 Apr 1900
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Date of death - 1976 |
| Place of birth
- Weybridge : Surrey |
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Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey of Welsh parentage, 19 April 1900. He is best know for his poetry, short stories, novels and plays.
Richard was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1922.
At Oxford, he met Robert Graves, also a Charterhouse boy, and they co-edited a poetry publication in 1921. Hughes' short play The Sister's Tragedy was in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre by 1922. He is credited with authorship of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair, and broadcast on January 15, 1924.
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Hughes was employed as a journalist, and travelled widely before he married painter Frances Bazley in 1932. They settled for a time in Norfolk and then in 1934 at Laugharne Castle in south Wales, near the poet, Dylan Thomas. In due course they had five children.
He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is A High Wind in Jamaica (1929), which in the USA is known by the title, The Innocent Voyage. He also wrote In Hazard, and volumes of children's stories including The Spider's Palace.
Hughes was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in the United States an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the OBE in 1946.
Richard Hughes died in 1976, aged 76. |
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