Edwin DuBose Heyward 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.
- Occupation
- novelist, screenwriter, poet, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 31, 1885
- Died
- June 16, 1940
