and mixed religion marriages. She continued to keep her husband's name for her writing, even after their divorce in 1930. Banning's last novel, Such Interesting People, was published in 1979. One of her best known books was Letters to Susan (1936), which was a collection of letters addressed to college women which covered topics such as "drinking, petting, and early marriage". Banning was a popular public speaker on women's issues and other civic topics. She was a member of the British Information Service in World War II. She travelled to England after World War II to study women's social conditions and then worked in refugee camps in Austria and Germany. Personal life She and Archibald Banning had four children, two of whom survived to adulthood. She was active in philanthrophy and served as a volunteer for the Junior League of Duluth, the American Association of University Women, and the League of Women Voters. She was a board member for the Duluth city symphony and public library, as well as a trustee of Vassar College from 1937 to 1945. She purchased the Friendly Hills estate near Tryon, North Carolina in 1936, and enjoyed the property seasonally for the remainder of her life. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 1944, she married her second husband, LeRoy Salsich, a mining company executive. Banning was a lifelong Republican and Roman Catholic. She died in Tryon, North Carolina on January 4, 1982. Banning was the first woman admitted to the Duluth Hall of Fame. She was honored by the city on May 21, 1969, which was proclaimed "Margaret Culkin Banning Day". Selected works Country Club People The First Woman Half Loaves A Handmaid of the Lord Letters from England, Summer 1942 Lifeboat Number Two Mesabi Salud!: A South American Journal Spellbinders Women for Defense The Women of the Family References External links Margaret Culkin Banning Papers, Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library 1891 births 1982 deaths 20th-century American novelists Vassar College alumni American women novelists 20th-century American women writers People from Buffalo, Minnesota Novelists from Minnesota People from Polk County, North Carolina People from Duluth, Minnesota Russell Sage College alumni