Hatcher Hughes

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Harvey Hatcher Hughes was an American playwright. He was on the teaching staff of Columbia University from 1912 onward. He was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Hell-Bent Fer Heaven.

Early life and education

He was the tenth of eleven children of Andrew Jackson Hughes and Martha Jane Gold Hughes. He received both his undergraduate degree and master's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career

Hell-bent fer Heaven was performed 128 times at the Klaw Theater. The play starred multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner George Abbott and Clara Blandick. It won a Pulitzer Prize was made into a movie in 1926.
Hughes was a professor at Columbia University. His detailed correspondence is kept in the University of North Carolina archives.

Family

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.

Works

A Marriage Made in Heaven Wake Up, Jonathan! Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, made into the 1926 motion picture of the same nameRuint It's a Grand Life

''The Lord Blesses the Bishop''