Early Life and Education
She was born in Wooster, Ohio as Dorothy Kuhns. She was interested in literature from an early age and started writing plays.
In 1922 Kuhns attended the writer's colony of MacDowell Colony, where she met DuBose Heyward. They married that year and she changed her name.
When her husband was writing his novel Porgy, Dorothy Heyward saw dramatic possibilities in the story. She convinced him that it would work as a play. They collaborated to adapt it to the stage. The 1927 Theater Guild production ran for 367 performances.
Their play was later adapted as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by DuBose Heyward. This was adapted as a film by the same name in 1959.
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