The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward

Hutchisson characterizes Porgy as 'the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension' and states that the libretto to Porgy and Bess was largely Heyward's work. The poet and playwright Langston Hughes said Heyward was one who saw 'with his white eyes, wonderful, poetic qualities in the inhabitants of Catfish Row that makes them come alive.' Biographer James M. Between stints of writing he supplemented his income by lecturing on southern literature at colleges. O'Neill, had operated a successful insurance and real estate company and by 1924 Heyward had achieved a measure of financial independence, allowing him to give up business and devote himself full time to literature.

During this period Heyward and a friend, Henry T. In 1922 he and Allen jointly published a collection, Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country and they jointly edited a southern issue of Poetry magazine. His poetry was well received, earning him a Contemporary Verse award in 1921. They became close friends and formed the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which helped spark a revival of southern literature Heyward edited the society's yearbooks until 1924 and contributed much of their content. In the next year, he met Hervey Allen, then teaching at the nearby Porter military academy. In 1918, his first published short story, 'The Brute,' appeared in Pagan, a Magazine for Eudaemonists. In 1917, he, convalescing from his illnesses, began to devote seriously to fiction and poetry. This minor success on derivative work reportedly showed little promise but encouraged him to pursue a literary career. In 1913, Heyward wrote a one-act play, An Artistic Triumph, produced in a local theater.

He described as 'a miserable student,' uninterested in learning and dropped high school in his first year at fourteen years of age despite a lifelong and serious interest in literature writing verses and stories, he passed the time in his sickbed. As a child and young man, frequently ill Heyward also caught polio at eighteen years of age, then contracted typhoid fever at twenty years of age, and fell ill with pleurisy in the following year. Thomas Heyward, Jr., his ancestor, signed Declaration of Independence of the United States and served as a representative of South Carolina. This best known work of this white author based the namesake play, which he co-authored with his wife Dorothy Heyward, and in turn this music. Dramatization in 1927 of Porgy (1925), novel of American writer Edwin DuBose Heyward based Porgy and Bess, folk opera of George Gershwin.

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward