DuBose Heyward

Porgy & Bess writer Dubose Heyward wrote fiction and brief stories through the 1920s and 1930s that centered on the lives of dark Americans living around the waterfront of Charleston, SC. Heyward and his wife, Dorothy, dramatized his most effective novels, leading to main Broadway successes, specifically Porgy & Bess, the very first U.S. folk opera, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics co-written by Ira Gershwin and Heyward. Lots of the tunes from the traditional Porgy & Bess have already been performed and documented countless times on the years, including “Summertime,” “I REALLY LIKE You Porgy,” and “I’m On My Method,” to mention just a couple. Heyward and his wife later on dramatized another of his books, Mamba’s Daughters, with very much success. Heyward after that published the screenplay for the 1933 film predicated on Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson. The Charleston, SC, indigenous also founded the Poetry Culture of SC.