DuBose Heyward

Author. A noted Southern writer of the early 20th. century, he is remembered for his 1925 novel "Porgy" and for the subsequent libretto of George Gershwin's 1935 opera "Porgy and Bess".

Most of what he wrote, save "Porgy" and his only children's book "The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes", a charming tale of a lady rabbit who becomes the Easter Bunny which has been in print continually since its 1939 publication, is essentially forgotten.

DeBose is a descendant of Judge Thomas Heyward, Jr., signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=478
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBose_Heyward