Author and critic owned this house
by BlockShopper Historian published Dec. 09, 2009
Author Riley Hughes owned this house in 1961. He was an associate professor at Providence College and Georgetown University during the 1940's. Hughes was the author of several books and a contributor to the Saturday Review. He was also a fiction critic for the Catholic World. Hughes review of J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye caused some schools to ban the book.
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