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(1869-1944) Author, poet, journalist. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks was born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and died in New York City.

Full Name

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline

1869

BIRTH

Olivia Ward was born in Sag Harbor, New York, in 1869.

1899

LITWORK

Original Poems
Providence, Rhode Island: Press of Louis A. Basinet.

Collection of poetry.

1910

LITWORK

Memories of Calvary: An Easter Sketch
A. M. E. Book Concern Print.

Play.

1914

LITWORK

Driftwood
Atlantic Printing Company

Collection of poetry.

1920

LITWORK

Indian Trails: Or Trail of the Montauk


Play written around 1920.

1930

RESIDENCE

Ms. Bush-Banks moved to New Rochelle, New York, in the 1930s. There she wrote for the Westchester Record-Courier.

1944

DEATH

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks died in New York City in 1944.

1991

LITWORK

The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
Oxford University Press

Collection of Ms. Bush-Banks' work edited by Bernice Forrest Guillaume.

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