Born Olive Arnold Dame in West Medford, Massachusetts, she married John C. Campbell, American educator, in 1907. After his death, she co-founded and directed the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina in 1925. Further, she helped in the formation of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

After a 1909 grant, she compiled Tennessee and Kentucky folk song lyrics with her husband. These were published in the seminal work, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp and Olive Campbell (1917, New York). This loosely served as the basis for the film Songcatcher.

References

• Inventory of the John Charles Campbell and Olive D. Campbell Papers, 1865-1965, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill.

External links

• Inventory of the John Charles Campbell and Olive D. Campbell Papers, 1865-1965, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill.