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Margaret Culkin Banning

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: March 18, 1891, Buffalo, Minnesota
Date of death: January 4, 1982, Tryon, North Carolina

Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 1913. Russell Sage Foundation fellow in research. Active in politics, she was a delegate to one National Republican Convention and an alternate to another. First literary works were short stories and essays published in magazines. First novel, This Marrying, published in 1920. Her last, Such Interesting People, published in 1979. Authored thirty-six novels and more than four hundred essays and short stories, usually concerned with problems of youth, women, and social change. Vassar College trustee, 1936-44. Duluth Public Library trustee. First woman admitted to Duluth Hall of Fame. Member of the British Information Service in World War II. Married Archibald Tanner Banning, 1914; divorced 1930; four children from this marriage. Married LeRoy Salsich, 1944; kept Banning name on her writings. Following World War II she worked in refugee and displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany.

Selected Works

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Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • Banning, Margaret C. Mesabi. New York, Harper & Row, 1969.
  • Barron, Ron. A Guide to Minnesota Writers: Expanded and Revised. Minnesota: Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, 1993.
  • Cameron, Mabel, Erma Lee, and Henry Wiley, comps. The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women. New York: The Halvord Publishing Co., 1924.
  • College Women and the Social Sciences. New York: The John Day Company, 1934.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif.: Richard Blank Pulishing Co., 1935-36.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: American Publications Inc., 1939.
  • Minneapolis Journal, 16 Sept. 1935, p.13.
  • Minneapolis Star Journal, 23 Feb. 1941, p. 6.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writers. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1961.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writes. Minneapolis: Lund Press, 1945.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, 7 Jan. 1982, p. 21.
  • Stuhler, Barbara, and Gretchen Kreuter, eds. Women of Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977.
  • Stutheit, Esther, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Minneapolis: Minnesota Editorial Association, 1941.
  • White, Bernice, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Seattle: Hugh L. White, 1958.
  • White, Bernice, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Seattle: Hugh L. White, 1964.
  • Who's Who Among Minnesota Women; Contempory Authors, 1963.
  • Who's Who Among North American Authors, 1933-35.. Los Angeles, Golden Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935.
  • Who's Who in America: 1976-77. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1976-77.
  • Who's Who in the Central States. Chicago: Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, 1947.
  • Who's Who in the Midwest. Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Co., 1949.
  • Who's Who in the Midwest, 1970-71. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who Inc., 1970.
  • Who's Who of American Women. Fifth Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975-76.
  • Women of Minnesota, Biographies & Sources p. 326. St. Paul: Minnesota Women's History Month, Inc., 1991.
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