DuBose Heyward
(1885-1940)
American novelist, playwright, poet
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Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name.
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31 August 1885 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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| Died |
16 June 1940 (aged 54)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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