When he returned here in May 1969, his first visit to America in 40 years, he sported an elegant beard and mustache. It was called “Danger” and transmitted by the BBC in 1924. He was also credited with writing the first radio play. I am compelled now to write this story Of course, in an enterprise of this sort, it is always a race between the publisher and the undertaker.” But a writer does not choose his subjects or his stories. Commenting in 1962 on his sparseness of output in over 40 years of writing he said: Hughes received warm praise for “In Hazard,” a maritime novel. The trilogy was intended to cover the years between the two world wars.
The second, “The Wooden Shepherdess,” came out in 1973. His death left unfinished a long historical novel, a trilogy to be entitled “The Human Predicament.” The first volume, “The Fox in the Attic,” apgeared in 1961. Hughes confessed that he had never been either to Jamaica or the West Indies but had leaned on his mother's memories of the place.
The book has sold more than three million copies, according to Chatto & Windus, and readers every year buy between 75,000 and 100,000 in hard‐back and paperback editions. It was published by the London firm of Chatto & Windus under the title “The Innocent Voyage,” and by Harper & Brothers here under the same title.īecause of the enormous success of the book after the English publisher retitled it in 1930, Harper followed suit. The book related the adventures of a group of children seized by pirates while sailing home to England in the early 19th century. He began writing “A High Wind in Jamaica’ on an island in the Adriatic Sea and completed it three years later in a frame house in New Milford, Conn. Hughes wrote only four novels-his other works included plays, poetry and children's stories - he ranked high among contemporary English writers. High Wind in Jamaica” in 1929, died Wednesday night of leukemia at his home at Moredrin, Talsarnau, near Harlech in Merioneth, Wales. Richard Hughes, the English novelist and dramatist who sprang to fame with his novel !`.A.
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