biography
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Heyward, (Edwin) DuBose
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1940)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He first worked in a hardware store, then as a checker in a cotton warehouse. Although not African-American, he drew on the life of South Carolina African-Americans for much of his writing. He and his wife dramatized his first novel, Porgy (1925), and it was the basis for George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935). He also wrote poetry and other fictional works. |
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