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Heyward

American  
[hey-werd] / ˈheɪ wərd /

noun

  1. DuBose 1885–1940, U.S. playwright, novelist, and poet.


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“The urban blight has become so bad,” said Andy Heyward, chief executive of the animation company Kartoon Studios.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Heyward co-hosted a fundraiser with his wife last week where Pratt was smudged with sage before standing in front of a giant amethyst geode to address about 125 people.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The story began as a 1925 novel by DuBose Heyward, a Charleston, S.C., resident who sought to portray the daily lives of black South Carolinians along the city’s waterfront.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

If the program is allowed to maintain the same standard of deep reporting it’s known for, the audience will get past a bad corporate decision, according to Heyward.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

Take the 1935 ‘American folk opera’ Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira and playwright DuBose Heyward.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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