- 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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