Rupert Hughes was an American historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri

Lancaster, Missouri

Lancaster is a city in Schuyler County, Missouri, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 728. It is the county seat of Schuyler County.Lancaster is part of the Kirksville Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865. His brother Howard R. Hughes, Sr.

Howard R. Hughes, Sr.

Howard Robard Hughes, Sr. was an American entrepreneur, best known as the father of Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., the famous aviation pioneer and film producer. Hughes, Sr. created the fortune that Hughes, Jr. inherited when he turned 18.-Early years:Hughes, Sr...

, co-founded the Hughes Tool Company. He was the uncle of Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...

, the famous aviation magnate and filmmaker. His three volume scholarly biography of George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 broke new ground in demythologizing the general and was well received by historians. He was elected as an honorary member of the Alpha chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music...

 music fraternity at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 1917. Hughes, active in state politics, was one of the founders of the California State Guard in 1940. In the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers Association

American Writers Association

The American Writers Association was an organization of writers. Formed in 1946, its members included Bruce Barton, John Dos Passos, John Erskine, James T. Farrell, John T...

, a group of anti-Communist writers.

Works

• Famous American Composers (1900)
• The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1903)
• Excuse Me (1911), novel
• Destiny (1925), novel
• George Washington: The Human Being and the Hero (1926)
• Washington 1789---1933 Roosevelt, article from Cosmopolitan March (1933)
• The Triumphant Clay (1951), novel
• The War of the Mayan King (1952, his final novel)
• The Dozen from Lakerim
• The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 and Volume 2

Hughes' short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 Don't Call Me Madame was filmed as Tillie and Gus

Tillie and Gus

Tillie and Gus is a 1933 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields and directed by Francis Martin. The screenplay by Walter DeLeon is based on a short story by Rupert Hughes entitled Don't Call Me Madame.-Plot:...

in 1933.

External links

• Rupert Hughes' rebuttal of the John Gano
  John Gano
  John Gano was a Baptist minister and Revolutionary War chaplain who allegedly baptized his friend, General George Washington.-Biography:...
  
   baptism of George Washington
  George Washington
  George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
  
  legend in Time magazine on 26 September 1932.