biography
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Hughes, Richard (Arthur Warren)
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| (1900–76)
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| Writer, born in Weybridge, Surrey, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, co-founded and directed the Portmadoc Players (1922–5), and was vice-president of the Welsh National Theatre (1924–36). He wrote the first radio drama, Danger, for the BBC (1924), and a collection of poems Confessio juvenis (1925). He travelled widely in Europe, America, and the West Indies, and eventually settled in Wales in 1934. He co-authored The Administration of War Production (1956), one of the official war histories, but he is best known for A High Wind in Jamaica (1929, entitled The Innocent Voyage in the USA). His books take a wide-ranging view of developments in 20th-c society. The Fox in the Attic (1961) was the first of a projected series of novels about the rise of fascism in Germany (1933–45), but only one other book, The Wooden Shepherdess (1977), was completed. He also wrote several children's stories (eg The Spider's Palace, 1931). |
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