Heyward, DuBose

Heyward, DuBose

▪ American writer
in full  Edwin Dubose Heyward  
born Aug. 31, 1885, Charleston, S.C., U.S.
died June 16, 1940, Tryon, N.C.

      American novelist, dramatist, and poet whose first novel, Porgy (1925), was the basis for a highly successful play, an opera, and a motion picture.

      At the age of 17 Heyward worked on the waterfront, where he observed the black Americans who were to become the subject of his writing. Heyward first wrote poems: Carolina Chansons (1922), a joint publication with Hervey Allen; Skylines and Horizons (1924); and Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems (1931). Porgy was set in Catfish Row, a Charleston tenement street. His other novels include Angel (1926), Peter Ashley (1932), and Star-Spangled Virgin (1939).

      In 1927 Heyward and his wife Dorothy dramatized Porgy. In 1935 the opera Porgy and Bess was produced with libretto and words by Heyward and Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin. A motion-picture version appeared in 1959. His other plays include Brass Ankle (1931), about miscegenation, and Mamba's Daughters, also dramatized by Heyward and his wife from the novel (1929).

      Dorothy Heyward (1890–1961) attended G.P. Baker's Workshop 47 at Harvard University and had a play produced on Broadway in 1924. She was most effective as a collaborator with her husband and others.

Additional Reading
James M. Hutchisson, DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess (2000).

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