Local figure
Hatcher Hughes
Hatcher Hughes entered the University of North Carolina in 1901, edited the student annual, and while a senior became an instructor in English, holding the post until he took his M.A. in 1909. He then went to Columbia University. His play Hell-Bent fer Heaven won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924.
Source: NCpedia: Hughes, (Harvey) Hatcher
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Hatcher Hughes wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Hatcher Hughes, a UNC graduate and former instructor in English there, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hell-Bent fer Heaven, a play about a mountain preacher. He was then teaching at Columbia University in New York. Place: New YorkSearch the index · The Pulitzer Prizes: Hatcher Hughes
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Background
- Hughes, (Harvey) HatcherNCpedia Concise historical background
Records of the time
- DigitalNC newspapers: 62 Orange County pages naming Hatcher Hughes Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Hatcher Hughes Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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Picture: Hatcher Hughes, Yackety Yack, 1907. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1907 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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