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Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was educated first at Charterhouse School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, Oriel College, Oxford in 1922. A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes's first published work to the magazine ''The Spectator (1828), The Spectator'' in 1917. The article, written as a school essay, was an unfavourable criticism of ''The Loom of Youth'', by Alec Waugh, a recently published novel which caused a furore for its account of homosexual passions between British schoolboys in a Public School (UK), public school. At Oxford he met Robert Graves, also an List of Old Carthusians, Old Carthusian, and they co-edited a poetry publication, ''Oxford Poetry'', in 1921. Hughes's short play ''The ...
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