DuBose Heyward

upright|thumb Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) 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. Quotes Porgy lived in the Golden Age. Not the Golden Age of a remote and legendary past; nor yet the chimerical era treasured by every man past middle life, that never existed except in the heart of youth; but an age when men, not yet old, were boys in an ancient, beautiful city that time had forgotten before it destroyed. Porgy (1925), pt. 1 Skylines and Horizons (1924) You could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears. "Your Gifts" It is cruel for a woman with her man gone, An' the younguns allus hungry, an' winter comin' on. "Black Christmas" Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise. "Evening in the Great Smokies" Here lies a spendthrift who believed    That only those who spend may keep; Who scattered seeds, yet never grieved    Because a stranger came to reap. "Epitaph for a Poet" See also Hervey Allen Ira Gershwin External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:People from Charleston Category:1885 births Category:1940 deaths