Hughes, Hatcher, 1881-1945

Harvey Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945) was a college professor and dramatist from Polkville, N.C.; he wrote for the theatre and taught English and drama at Columbia University beginning in 1909; won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1924 for his folk play, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, which drew upon his early life as the youngest of 11 children in a family of sharecroppers graduate of University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (A.B. 1907; M.A. 1909); served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.

From the description of Letter, 1924 June 8, West Cornwall, Connecticut, to [Samuel Lowry] Latimer, [Columbia, S.C.] (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 60653060

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