The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

"The Country Bunny and The Little Golden Shoes"

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      Edwin DuBose Heyward wrote the children's book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939).

      Heyward was born in 1885 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a descendant of Judge Thomas Heyward, Jr., a South Carolina signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

      As a child and young man, Heyward was frequently ill. He contracted polio when he was eighteen, then two years later contracted typhoid fever and the following year fell ill with pleurisy. Although he described himself as " a miserable student" who was uninterested in learning, and dropped out of high school in his first year at age fourteen, he had a lifelong and serious interest in literature. He passed the time in his sickbed writing verses and stories.

• Charleston Childhood: The First Years of Dubose Heyward.