Hatcher Hughes Papers (#4210) 1914-1982

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Hatcher Hughes Papers (#4210) 1914-1982

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Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945) was a dramatist from North Carolina who wrote folk and other plays and taught English and drama at Columbia University beginning in 1909. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1924. The collection includes correspondence; writings, mostly plays and other materials relating to Hughes's career as a dramatist; and other papers, including genealogical and biographical materials relating to the Hughes family. Letters, 1917-1924 and undated, are chiefly from Hughes to his mother in North Carolina just prior to, during, and just after World War I. Letters from 1917 to June 1919 describe preparations for war at Fort Lee, Va., and his experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in France beginning in summer 1918. Later letters include reports of Hughes's activities at Columbia University, his health, and other items of day-to-day interest. Writings include copies of plays; reviews of Hughes's plays, 1924-1925 and 1930s; and a few photographs of the French productions from . There is also a copy of an undated speech that Hughes gave in North Carolina about the state of drama. Other papers, 1914-1982, include genealogical and biographical materials, photographs of Hughes, and a few other items. Hell-Bent for Heaven

About 100 items (0.5 linear feet)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627277

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Hatcher Hughes

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American Expeditionary Forces

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Hughes

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Hughes, Hatcher, 1881-1945

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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 du...