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A Short Biography of Richard Hughes

Author Name:

Richard Hughes

Born As:

Other Names:

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

Born:

19 Apr 1900

Died:

28 Apr 1976




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Writer and Dramatist.
Professor of Religion and senior fellow, Ernest L. Boyer Center
Messiah College                          
Selected Works:

The Spectator - 1917 - article
Oxford Poetry - 1921
The Sister's Tragedy - 1922 - play
Danger - 1924

A High Wind in Jamaica - 1929 - The Innocent Voyage, stage adaptation

Hazard - 1938, and 

Volumes of children's stories, including The Spider's Palace.

The Human Predicament - 
The Fox in the Attic - 1961 
The Wooden Shepherdess - 1973

Assembly Stories for Secondary Schools - 1989                          
Mother Louisa Grace Warren
Father Arthur Hughes                          
World's first radio play - Danger  -1924
Ten years writing scripts for Ealing Studios                          
Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on January 15, 1924.