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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, …

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