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Richard Hughes

AKA Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

Born: 19-Apr-1900
Birthplace: Weybridge, Surrey, England
Died: 28-Aug-1976
Location of death: Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: A High Wind in Jamaica

Military service: Royal Navy (WWII)

Father: Arthur Hughes
Mother: Louisa Grace Warren
Wife: Frances Bazley (painter, m. 1932)

    High School: Charterhouse School
    University: Oriel College, Oxford University (1922)

    Royal Society of Literature
    American Academy of Arts and Letters
    Officer of the British Empire 1946

Author of books:
Gipsy Night and Other Poems (1922, poetry)
A Moment of Time (1926)
Confession Juvenis (1926, poetry)
A High Wind in Jamaica (1929, novel, aka "The Innocent Voyage")
An Omnibus (1931, anthology)
The Spider's Palace (1931, juvenile)
In Hazard (1938, novel)
Don't Blame Me (1940, juvenile)
The Fox in the Attic (1961, novel, Human Predicament)
Gertrude's Child (1966, juvenile)
The Wooden Shepherdess (1973, novel, Human Predicament)
The Wonder Dog (1977, juvenile)
In the Lap of Atlas (1979, short stories)

Wrote plays:
The Sister's Tragedy (1922)
Danger (1924, first radio play in history)


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