![]() ![]() The two would later be married.ĭuring a second fellowship at MacDowell, DuBose shared excerpts with his fellow colonists from his new novel, Porgy. Already a recognized poet, he was invited to summer at MacDowell where he met Dorothy Hartzell Kuhns, a native of Ohio and a student in George Pierce Baker’s playwriting workshop at Harvard. Over time, the “southern gentleman” became a liberal, based upon his exposure to and admiration for the African American men he came to know while working as a young man on the Charleston docks. Born into an aristocratic Charleston, South Carolina family, Heyward grew up proud but poor. ![]() MacDowell fellowships: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1938Įdwin DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), was an American novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his novel Porgy, that inspired the play, folk opera, and film, Porgy and Bess. ![]()
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