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Heyward, Dubose
Heyward, Dubose (1885–1940), South Carolina author, began his career with Carolina Chansons (1922), poems written with Hervey Allen, followed by his own poems in Skylines and Horizons (1924). He is best known for his novel about blacks in Charleston, Porgy (1925), whose dramatic version, written with his wife Dorothy, won a Pulitzer Prize and was made into an opera by George Gershwin, as Porgy and Bess (1935). Mamba's Daughters (1929), another novel about the life of blacks, was also dramatized by the author and his wife (1939). His other works include the poems in Jasbo Brown (1931), and the novels Peter Ashley (1932), about South Carolina before the Civil War, and Star Spangled Virgin (1939), dealing with the effects of the New Deal program on the population of the Virgin Islands.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-HeywardDubose.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-HeywardDubose.html |
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DuBose Heyward
DuBose Heyward , 1885–1940, American author, b. Charleston, S.C. His first published work was a volume of poetry, Carolina Chansons (1922), written with Hervey Allen. Heyward's story of the lives of blacks on the Charleston waterfront, Porgy (1925), was dramatized by Heyward and his wife Dorothy in 1927. In 1935 it was made into a folk opera, Porgy and Bess, with the score by George Gershwin. Heyward's later works include Mamba's Daughters, a story of black life, which the Heywards also successfully dramatized (1939). |
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"DuBose Heyward." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "DuBose Heyward." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-HeywardD.html "DuBose Heyward." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-HeywardD.html |
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Heyward, Dubose
Heyward, Dubose. See Porgy.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-HeywardDubose.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Heyward, Dubose." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-HeywardDubose.html |
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