DuBose Heyward

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"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

People: DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)

Places: South Carolina,  Charleston (S.C.)

Times: 20th century