Davis, Olivia (Anne Carr) 1922-2004
DAVIS, Olivia (Anne Carr) 1922-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born December 4, 1922, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; died of respiratory failure March 10, 2004, in Alexandria, VA. Actress and author. Davis was a novelist and short story writer who also cofounded the Springfield Community Theater. After attending school in London and being privately tutored, she served in British Intelligence as a translator in Oxford. It was during the war that she met her husband, Tom, and they married and settled in Virginia after the war. Davis had been active in theater since acting with the London Theatre Arts Club in the mid-1940s; she also was part of the Anglo-American Little Theatre troop in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1956, she and her husband helped found the Springfield Footlighters, which later became the Springfield Community Theater, in Virginia. Davis, however, is often more recognized as an author of the novels The Last of the Greeks (1968) and The Steps of the Sun (1972), as well as the short story collection The Scent of Apples (1973); many of her stories also appeared in anthologies and magazines, and her fiction has been translated into twenty-six languages.
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Washington Post, March 30, 2004, p. B7.
ONLINE
Springfield Community Theatre,http://sctonline.org/ (April 27, 2004).