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DuBose Heyward


 

DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885-June 16, 1940) is best-known as the author of the 1924 novel Porgy, which became the foundation of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. A Charleston insurance and real-estate salesman with a long-standing and serious interest in literature, he became financially independent and abandoned his business to devote full time to writing.

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