DuBose Heyward
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American novelist, playwright, poet
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Why Is DuBose Heyward Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edwin DuBose Heyward was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name.
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