Hatcher Hughes

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Hatcher Hughes (February 12, 1881, Polkville, North Carolina - October 19, 1945, New York, New York) was an American playwright. He was on the teaching staff of Columbia University from 1912 onward. He was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his 1922 play Hell-Bent for Heaven.

[edit] Works

• A Marriage Made in Heaven (1918)
• Wake Up, Jonathan (with Elmer Rice, 1921)
• Hell-Bent for Heaven (1922), made into the 1926 motion picture of the same name
• Ruint (1925)
• It's a Grand Life (1930)
• The Lord Blesses the Bishop (co-author, 1932)

[edit] External links

• Hatcher Hughes at the Internet Movie Database
• Hatcher Hughes at the Internet Broadway Database