Edwin DuBose Heyward

Benjamin Brawley's personal copy of Porgy, the basis for Gershwin's influential opera Porgy and Bess. 

• Edwin DuBose Heyward (American).
• New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925.
• 196 pages.
• Octavo.
• First edition, second printing.
• Bound in publisher's orange cloth with black stamping to spine and front board.

Brawley was an American author and educator, whose books include The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918) and New Survey of English Literature (1925). He served as the first dean of Morehouse College from 1912 to 1920, taught at Shaw University, and was the chair of the English department at Howard University.

Benjamin Brawley