Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993

Born in Kansas City, Mo. in 1904. Educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia University and the University of New Mexico. Mystery writer and critic. Hughes has also published poetry and non-fiction and is known in New Mexico for her history of the first fifty years of the University of New Mexico, Pueblo on the Mesa.

From the guide to the Dorothy B. Hughes Photograph Collection, 1930-1950, (University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research)

Born in Kansas City, Mo. in 1904. Educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia University and the University of New Mexico. Mystery writer and critic. Hughes has also published poetry and non-fiction and is known in New Mexico for her history of the first fifty years of the University of New Mexico, Pueblo on the mesa.

From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy B. Hughes, 1989 March. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 38481945

Dorothy Belle Hughes was born in Kansas City, Mo. on August 10, 1904. She was educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia University and the University of New Mexico. After many attempts at writing a mystery novel, Hughes' book, The So Blue Marble, was published in 1940. Thereafter she became a prolific mystery writer and critic. She has published fifteen novels, several short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Cosmopolitan and many book reviews in the Albuquerque Tribune, the Los Angeles News and Mirror and the New York Herald Tribune. Hughes has also published poetry and nonfiction and is known in New Mexico for her history of the first fifty years of the University of New Mexico, Pueblo on the Mesa.

From the guide to the Oral History Interview with Dorothy B. Hughes, 1964-1989, (University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest Research.)