DuBose Heyward
Subtitle: a Charleston gentleman and the world of Porgy and Bess
By: James M. Hutchisson.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940.; Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 -- Characters -- African Americans.; Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940.; African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Historiography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Historiography.; Folklorists -- South Carolina -- Biography.; African Americans in literature.; Charleston (S.C.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Charleston (S.C.) -- In literature.; Charleston (S.C.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Mainly known today as the author of Porgy, Heyward was a versatile artist equally at ease with verse, short fiction, novels, plays, and Hollywood screenwriting. He and his wife Dorothy helped to energize the nascent black theater movement in New York. A cofounder of the Poetry Society of South Caroline, the first regional poetry circle in America, Heyward became a vigorous promoter of southern writing that was to peak in the great southern literary renaissance.".

"Pulled by tradition into a way of life he did not completely accept, he developed a growing social conscience through writing. He began as a social conservative but ended his life as a staunch progressive committed to the advancement of African Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-214) and index.