The
Writers
DuBose Heyward
(1885-1940)
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Press of Mississippi
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Edwin DuBose Heyward was born in Charleston, South
Carolina in 1885. As a young man he worked on the Charleston waterfront
where he became fascinated with the Gullah culture, which provided
the background for much of his work, including his first novel, Porgy
(1925). Heyward's other novels include Angel
(1926), Mamba's
Daughters (1929), Peter Ashley (1932), Lost Morning (1936),
and Star Spangled Virgin (1939). With his wife, Dorothy Heyward,
he wrote a dramatization of his novel Porgy, which was made into
the folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) by the American composer George
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