Hatcher Hughes (12 February 1881, Polkville, North Carolina - 19 October 1945, New York City) was an American playwright who lived in Grover, NC, as featured in the book Images of America. He was on the teaching staff of Columbia University from 1912 onward. He was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his 1922 play Hell-Bent Fer Heaven. He was the tenth of eleven children of Andrew Jackson Hughes and Martha Jane Gold Hughes. He received both his u...
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Hatcher Hughes (12 February 1881, Polkville, North Carolina - 19 October 1945, New York City) was an American playwright who lived in Grover, NC, as featured in the book Images of America. He was on the teaching staff of Columbia University from 1912 onward. He was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his 1922 play Hell-Bent Fer Heaven. He was the tenth of eleven children of Andrew Jackson Hughes and Martha Jane Gold Hughes. He received both his undergraduate degree (1907) and master's degree (1909) in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1930 he married Janet Ranney Cool. The marriage produced a daughter, Ann Ranney Hughes. During the First World War, he served as an Army captain. He and his family divided their time between their home in New York City and their farm in West Cornwall, Connecticut.
"Hell Bent Fer' Heaven," (1924), as shown 122 times at The Klaw Theater - later became the Avon and then CBS Theater #2. It was immediately made into a movie ...
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