Hugh B. Cave

Born in England, Hugh B. Cave came to the United States as a child and grew up around Boston, attending Brookline High and Boston University. He began writing while in high school and contributed some 800 stories to various pulp magazines and some 350 to the so-called “slicks,” including forty-three to The Saturday Evening Post and thirty-six to Good Housekeeping. He has also written more than forty books.Mr. Cave lived in Haiti for the best part of five years, owned and ran a Blue Mountain coffee plantation in Jamaica for fifteen years, and wrote five books about World War II while acting as a war correspondent. Famed novelist Kenneth Roberts wrote about Cave’s book Haiti: Highroad to Adventure: “If there was anything printed about Haiti that I didn’t read (when I was writing Lydia Bailey), either in French, or English, or diaries, I couldn’t find out about it; and Cave’s Haiti seems to me to stand head and shoulders above all of them in its vivid depiction of the land and the people.”

Hugh Barnett Cave (July 11, 1910–June 27, 2004)