Margaret Culkin Banning

Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (18 March 1891 - 4 January 1982) was a best-selling American author of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota, the daughter of William E. Culkin, who served in the Minnesota state senate from 1895 to 1899. She was also the first woman admitted to the Duluth Hall of Fame. She died in 1982, at age 90, in Tryon, North Carolina.

Selected works

• Country Club People
• The First Woman
• Half Loaves
• A Handmaid of the Lord
• Letters from England, Summer 1942
• Mesabi
• Salud!: A South American Journal
• Spellbinders
• Women for Defense
• The Women of the Family

External links

• IMDB
• Catholic Authors
• Minnesota Author Biography Project

Persondata
Name	Banning, Margaret Culkin
Alternative names	Banning, Margaret Frances Culkin (full name); Culkin, Margaret Frances (birth name)
Short description	Novelist
Date of birth	March 18, 1891
Place of birth	Buffalo, Minnesota, United States
Date of death	January 4, 1982
Place of death	Tryon, North Carolina, United States