{"id":222,"date":"2021-11-30T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2022-02-10T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T22:27:20","slug":"dean-hughes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/dean-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/Dean-Hughes.jpg\" alt=\"1986 festival book signing with Dean Hughes\" height=\"1008\" width=\"1536\" title=\"Dean-Hughes\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1986 festival book signing with Dean Hughes\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/Hughes.png\" alt=\"Dean Hughes signature\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" title=\"Hughes\" \/>\n\t<p>Dean Hughes was born in 1943 Utah. As an adult he taught English at Central Missouri State University and creative writing at Brigham Young University, being also a husband to Lorraine Hughes and a father to their three children, Tom, Amy, and Robert. In the meanwhile, he cultivated a passion for his own writing. To <em>Meridian Magazine<\/em>, he described his journey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was 34 when I finally sold that historical novel,\u00a0<em>Under the Same Stars<\/em>, to Deseret Book, so I had been trying for 17 years and it was the fourth book I had written. All this was ever so much more complicated than this summary may imply, and the truth is that I quit a dozen times but then couldn&#8217;t ever &#8216;stay quit.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U3-N85-1981.jpg\" alt=\"Nutty for President by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2521\" width=\"1615\" title=\"PS-3558-U3-N85-1981\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U3-N83-1985.jpg\" alt=\"Nutty and the Case of the Ski-Slope Spy by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2521\" width=\"1615\" title=\"PS-3558-U3-N83-1985\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U3-N824-1985.jpg\" alt=\"Nutty and the Case of the Mastermind Thief by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2521\" width=\"1615\" title=\"PS-3558-U3-N824-1985\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U36-N86-1993.jpg\" alt=\"Nutty's Ghost by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2530\" width=\"1644\" title=\"PS-3558-U36-N86-1993\" \/>\n\t<p><em>Under the Same Stars<\/em> is a historical fiction. While focusing mostly on this genre throughout all of his books, Hughes has acknowledged both a humorous and serious side to every story. He mentioned in a <em>Something About the Author<\/em> bio that he wants to write &#8220;entertaining&#8221; works, but also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My goal is to write some works that are truly fine pieces of art. I love writing. I love the freedom, the creativity and the wonderful feedback I get from kids, librarians and teachers. I want to make young people think and feel and care-there are too many forces pushing them in the opposite directions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hughes knew even back when he was a kid how meaningful books could be, the way he still knows it today. As he put it himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was kid I always told people I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. Well, I&#8217;ve accomplished the first part: I&#8217;m a writer. Now if I can just grow up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U36-E53-1993.jpg\" alt=\"End of the Race by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2530\" width=\"1639\" title=\"PS-3558-U36-E53-1993\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U36-M5-1983.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Willenheimer and the Chestnut Corporation by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2530\" width=\"1634\" title=\"PS-3558-U36-M5-1983\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/PS-3558-U36-F3-1982-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Facing the Enemy by Dean Hughes\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1697\" title=\"PS-3558-U36-F3-1982\" \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/sandy-asher\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2190 Sandy Asher\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/featured-authors\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFeatured Authors\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/childrenslitfest\/lensey-namioka\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLensey Namioka \u2192\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1986 festival book signing with Dean Hughes Dean Hughes was born in 1943 Utah. 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