Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900-28 April 1976) was a British professional writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He was born in Weybridge, Surrey of Welsh parentage, and educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. Weybridge is a town in the Elmbridge district of Surrey in South East England. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Charterhouse School is a British public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. ... College name Oriel College Named after Blessed Virgin Mary Established 1324 Sister College Clare College Provost Sir Derek Morris JCR President Frank Hardee Undergraduates 304 Graduates 158 Homepage Boatclub Oriel College (in full: The House of Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford commonly called Oriel College, of the Foundation of... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes' first published work to The Spectator in 1917. 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. The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24, 1895–December 7, 1985) was an English scholar, best remembered for his work as a poet and novelist. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The term West End is most commonly used to refer to the West End of London, an area mostly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden, in London, England. ... The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, in the Chelsea area of London noted for its contributions to modern theatre. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Nigel Playfair (1874-1934) was the great actor-manager of The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in the 1920s. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Hughes was employed as a journalist, and travelled widely before he married in 1932 the painter Frances Bazley. They settled for a period in Norfolk and then in 1934 at Laugharne Castle in south Wales, near the poet, Dylan Thomas (who leased the Boat House there from Hughes). In due course they had five children. A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Laugharne (Welsh: Talacharn) is a town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Taf. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area  - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² Ethnicity: 97. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (Swansea, October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953 in New York City) was a Welsh poet and writer. ...

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 wrote also In Hazard, and volumes of children's stories including The Spider's Palace. A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by Richard Hughes. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

During the Second World War, Hughes served in the Admiralty. After the end of the War, he spent ten years writing scripts for Ealing Studios. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ... Ealing Studios, a TV and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London, claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. ...

His most important work is the trilogy The Human Predicament, of which only the first two volumes, The Fox in The Attic (1961) and The Wooden Shepherdess (1973), were complete when he died; twelve chapters, under 50 pages, of the final volume are now published. In these he follows the course of European history from the 1920s through the Second World War, including exploits of real characters — such as Hitler's escape following the abortive Munich putsch — as well as fictional. This article discusses the history of the continent of Europe. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... For the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, see Munich (film). ...

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. The Royal Society of Literature is the senior literary organisation in Britain. External link The Royal Society of Literature Categories: Literature stubs | Literature of the United Kingdom ... American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Reference

• Richard Perceval Graves: Richard Hughes. A biography. London: A. Deutsch, 1994.

External link

• Hughes manuscripts collected at Indiana University