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Anne Brown
Anne Brown
American singer
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Adele Addison
Adele Addison
American opera singer
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
American lyricist (1893-1983)
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Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall
British pianist, organist and conductor
DuBose Heyward
American novelist, playwright, poet

DuBose Heyward

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American novelist, playwright, poet
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters

DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, authors of the play Porgy (1927)

Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) 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.

Heyward also wrote poetry and other novels and plays. He wrote the children's book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939).