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- Playwright Hatcher Hughes was born in Pokeville, NC, in 1886. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1907 and was hired by the university as an English instructor. In 1909, after obtaining his masters degree, he left the university and went to Columbia University in New York, where in 1912 he organized a course in play writing. In the early 1920s he spent his vacations in the Carolina mountains, interacting with the locals and studying their lives and culture. He wrote two plays about his experiences, "Ruint" (1925) and "Hell-Bent for Heaven" (1923), which was a Broadway success, was later made into a film (Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1926)) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His subsequent plays have met with less success, although several were minor hits.
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- SpouseJanet Ranney Cool(May 1930 - October 19, 1945) (his death, 1 child)
- Playwright and occasional theatrical director. Hughes had 5 productions appear on Broadway from 1921-1934. While none of these (see "Other Works") were huge hits, his most successful melodrama was purchased by Warner Brothers, then a lower rung studio, and produced as Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1926).
- Won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven".
- Father: Andrew Jackson Hughes; Mother: Martha Polk Gold.
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