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American dramatist (–)

Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, – June 16, )^[1] was an American author best known for his novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a play of the same name.

The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a film of the same name.

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Heyward also wrote poetry and other novels and plays, as well as the children's book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes ().

Childhood, education, and early career

Heyward was born in in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Jane Screven (DuBose) and Edwin Watkins Heyward.^[3] He was a descendant of Judge Thomas Heyward, Jr., a South Carolinian signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his wife, who were of the planter elite.

As a child and young man, Heyward was frequently ill. He contracted polio when he was Two years later he contracted typhoid fever, and