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British writer (1900–1976)

Richard Arthur Warren HughesOBE (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Weybridge, Surrey.

His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother was Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica.

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He was educated first at Charterhouse School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1922.

A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes's first published work to the magazine The Spectator in 1917. The article, written as a school essay, was an unfavourable criticism of The Loom of Youth, by Alec Waugh, a recently published novel which caused a furore for its account of homosexual passions between British schoolboys in a public school.

At Oxford, he met Robert Graves, also an Old Carthusian, and they co-edited a poetry publication, Oxford Poetry, in 1921. Hughes's short play The Si