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- Birth nameEdwin DuBose Heyward
- Lyricist ("Summertime") and author, educated in public schools and in the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Norh Carolina. He was the author of several poems, novels and more, and joined ASCAP in 1936; his chief musical collaborators were George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, and his other compositions include "My Man's Gone Now", "Bess, You Is My Woman Now", "I Loves You, Porgy", "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- SpouseDorothy Heyward(September 22, 1923 - June 16, 1940) (his death, 1 child)
- [on the creative process involved in developing "Porgy and Bess"] The brothers Gershwin [George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin], after their extraordinary fashion, would get at the piano, pound, wrangle, swear, burst into weird snatches of song and eventually emerge with polished lyrics.
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