This Day in History: 1926-07-06
Among 37 new books listed as ready for borrowing at the Mahwah Library there were several well known titles and authors. The famous Australian Diva Nellie Malba’s autobiography “Memories” was one, along with Sinclair Lewis’ latest novel “Mantrap”. Also added were a collection of Edith Wharton’s short stories “Here and Beyond”, “Treasure” by the Oakland journalist and writer of dog stories, Albert Payson Terhune, and DuBose Heyward’s “Porgy”. This novel was such a success that the next year, in collaboration with his wife Dorothy Hartzel Heyward, he turned it into a play which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The book for Gershwin’s famous opera “Porgy and Bess”, 1935, was drawn from it. (Bristow)