Person Detail: Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

General Information:
Full Name: Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
Biography: (1869-1944) Author, poet, journalist. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks was born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and died in New York City.
Native American Information:
Name: Tribe: Montaukett
Author's Timeline:
1869		Suffolk County Olivia Ward was born in Sag Harbor, New York, in 1869.
1899		(Unknown) County Original Poems (Pub: Providence, Rhode Island: Press of Louis A. Basinet. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1914		(Unknown) County Driftwood (Pub: Atlantic Printing Company ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1920		(Unknown) County Indian Trails: Or Trail of the Montauk Play written around 1920.
1910		(Unknown) County Memories of Calvary: An Easter Sketch (Pub: A. M. E. Book Concern Print. ISBN: ) Play.
1930		Westchester County Ms. Bush-Banks moved to New Rochelle, New York, in the 1930s. There she wrote for the Westchester Record-Courier.
1991		(Unknown) County The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: ) Collection of Ms. Bush-Banks' work edited by Bernice Forrest Guillaume.
1944		(Unknown) County Olivia Ward Bush-Banks died in New York City in 1944.

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