• Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy.
  • DuBose Heyward (born Aug. 31, 1885, Charleston , S.C., U.S.—died June 16, 1940, Tryon, N.C.) was an American novelist, dramatist, and poet whose first...
  • 1885-16 June 1940), novelist, dramatist, and poet, was born Edwin DuBose Heyward in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Edwin Watkins Heyward, a mill...
  • George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward Produced And Presented By Sherwin M. Goldman And Houston Grand Opera - Porgy And Bess (Album).
  • Dubose Heyward was born in Charleston. He was sick as a child with both polio and typhoid fever. His first play, An Artistic Triumph, was produced in 1913.
  • Heyward was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on August 31, 1885, the son of Edwin Watkins Heyward and Jane Screven DuBose.
  • DuBose Heyward was the successful co-owner of an insurance and real estate company and realized his financial independence by the time he was 40 years of age.
  • DuBose Heyward, known primarily as "the man who wrote Porgy," is less remembered than the title character of his most famous piece of fiction.
  • A video made by David Farrow that illustrates Dubose Heyward's poem "Dusk," a tribute to his native Charleston.