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He was the author of the world's first radio play, A Comedy Of Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on 15 January 1924. Hughes was employed as a journalist and travelled widely before he married the painter Frances Bazley (1905–1985) in 1932.
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.
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,...
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. Combine Editions. Richard Hughes’s books. Average rating: 3.76 · 15,098 ratings · 1,787 reviews · 245 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Richard Hughes… Series by Richard Hughes. The Human Predicament (2 books) by.
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Richard Hughes. 3.77. 9,986 ratings1,095 reviews. New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.
British novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Richard Hughes through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
