# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dubose-heyward
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:05.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dubose-heyward"
name: "DuBose Heyward"
slug: "dubose-heyward"
description: "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."
tagline: "American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Porgy-DuBose-Dorothy-Heyward.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1885-08-31"
deathDate: "1940-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.53
  momentum:             15
  historical:           15.82837333333333
  currentAttention:     10.28
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371738/"
    handle:    "nm0371738"
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    title: "DuBose Heyward"
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    title: "DuBose Heyward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "DuBose Heyward"
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    title: "Хейуорд, Дюбоз"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump