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Olivia Howard Dunbar
Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953) was an American short story writer, journalist and biographer, best known today for her ghost fiction.
== Life ==
Dunbar was born in West Bridgeport, Massachusetts in 1873. She graduated from Smith College, after which she worked in newspaper journalism. As a short shory writer and critic, she was published in many of the popular periodicals of her time, including ''Harper's'' and ''The Dial''. Dunbar wrote several ghost stories, as well as a 1905 essay, "The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction", defending the subgenre.〔Olivia Howard Dunbar, "The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction". In Jason Colavito, ed.,''A Hideous Bit of Morbidity: An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. (pp. 330-336). ISBN 978-0786469093 (Reprinted from ''The Dial'', June 1, 1905, p. 377-380.)〕 Dunbar was active in the women's suffrage movement, and her work has been noted to contain feminist themes.〔 She married the poet Ridgely Torrence in 1914. Dunbar died in 1953. Her work has been anthologized by Dorothy Scarborough and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.〔〔Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ''Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women''.New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. ISBN 0823229858 (p. 106).〕
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