Title: DuBose Heyward
Subtitle: a Charleston gentleman and the world of Porgy and Bess
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.
Subjects: Biography, Historiography, African Americans, Social life and customs, Intellectual life, African Americans in literature, American Authors, Characters, Folklorists, In literature, Gullahs, Heyward, dubose, 1885-1940, South carolina, social life and customs, Authors, american, Charleston (s.c.), South carolina, biography, Afro-Americans
Places: South Carolina, Charleston (S.C.)
People: DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
Time periods: 20th century