Richard Hughes

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Richard Hughes (1900–1976) was a British poet, novelist, and playwright. He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1922, the same year in which his one-act play The Sister’s Tragedy was produced in London. In 1924, Hughes authored the world’s first radio play Danger, which was broadcast by the BBC. He later worked as a journalist and traveled widely across the United States and the Caribbean. He wrote four books over the course of his career, though his best-known work is his 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica.