Olive Byrne Olive Byrne Mary Olive Byrne (), known professionally as Olive Richard (February 19, 1904 – May 19, 1985), was as an American homemaker and polyamorous life partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She was the daughter of famous Progressive activist Ethel Byrne who famously opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States with her sister Margaret Sanger. She has been credited as an inspiration for the comic book character, Wonder Woman. Olive was delivered by her aunt Margret Sanger to the Byrne family in Corning, New York, 1904. Two years later her mother Ethel Byrne would
William Moulton Marston Marston had written many articles and books on various psychological topics, but his last six years of writing were devoted to his comics creation. William Moulton Marston died of cancer on May 2, 1947, in Rye, New York, seven days shy of his 54th birthday. After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death in 1985, aged 81; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100. In 1985, Marston was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication "Fifty Who Made DC Great". William Moulton Marston's philosophy of diametric opposites