Mary Sachs (1882-1973) was an American playwright and poet.

Biography

Mary Sachs was born Mary Parmly Koues in 1882. She graduated from Smith College in 1912, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sachs published her first play, ''The Twelfth Disciple'', about

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. The play was performed on Broadway. She subsequently composed poetry. Her poetry collection entitled ''Echoes'', which included poems she wrote between 1898 and 1966, was published in 1967. Sachs supported

women's suffrage in the United States In the 1700's to early 1800's New Jersey did allow Women the right to vote before the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 19th Amendment, but in 1807 the state restricted the right to vote to "...tax-paying, ...

. She was a charter member of the League of Women Voters. Sachs married Ernest Sachs, a neurosurgeon and the grandson of Goldman Sachs's founder, in 1913 They had a daughter and two sons: Mary Parmly sachs, Thomas Dudley Sachs and Ernest Sachs Jr. They resided in Hanover, New Hampshire. She became a widow in 1958. Sachs died on December 24, 1973, in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was 91 years old.

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