Charles Eugene Banks

American writer, historian and newspaper editor
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IntroAmerican writer, historian and newspaper editor
PlacesUnited States of America
wasWriter Historian Editor
Work fieldJournalism Literature Social science
Gender
Male
Birth3 April 1852
Death30 April 1932Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, U.S.A. (aged 80 years)
Star signAries
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Biography

Charles Eugene Banks (April 3, 1852 – April 30, 1932) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, author, novelist, poet, playwright, historian, and orator.

Biography

Banks was born to Seth Lee and Sarah M. Banks at Lyons in Clinton County, Iowa. Raised on a farm, he was educated by his mother for several years before attending public schools. As a poetically-inclined traveling shoe salesman, Banks' professional writing career began with submissions to a regionally distributed trade journal. He eventually found writing work in Chicago, where in 1892 he married actress Carrie Wyatt Lounsbury. Banks returned to Iowa with his wife and in Davenport he mentored several young writers known as the Davenport group: Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and Floyd Dell. He later moved to Seattle where he worked as an editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, before retiring to Hawaii. Banks was widowed in 1926. In 1932 he was struck by an automobile and died. Close personal friend Clarence Darrow delivered Banks' eulogy and served as executor of his estate. According to his obituary Banks left no surviving offspring.

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