Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

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Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

1900–1976

Best known for the haunting novel A High Wind in Jamaica, this British writer moved easily between fiction, poetry, drama, and screenwriting. His work is often remembered for its dark wit, psychological sharpness, and unusual way of seeing childhood and adventure.

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About the author

Born in 1900 in Weybridge, Surrey, he was a British writer whose full name was Richard Arthur Warren Hughes. He studied at Charterhouse and later at Oriel College, Oxford, and went on to write poems, short stories, novels, and plays.

He is most closely associated with A High Wind in Jamaica (1929), the novel that brought him lasting recognition. He also wrote the historical novels The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess, part of an unfinished sequence sometimes referred to as The Human Predicament.

His career stretched beyond novels into drama and screenwriting, showing how comfortably he worked across forms. Hughes died in 1976, and he remains admired for writing that is elegant, unsettling, and still surprisingly fresh.