The Camp Fire Girls At The End Of The Trail (1917)

American children's author Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook lived from January 12, 1877, to February 7, 1958. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Joel Mayo Womack and Nannie Gibson (O'Bannon) Womack. There, she attended both public and private schools. She married John Filkin Vandercook in 1900, who went on to serve as the first president of the United Press Association. He died in 1908. John Womack Vandercook was their only son. Although Margaret lived in Gramercy Park, New York, during the winters and Leonardo, New Jersey, during the summers, she also spent a number of years in Europe while her husband was alive. When her husband passed away, Margaret Vandercook began writing professionally. Since then, she has been called the "queen of Camp Fire authors" for her work on 21 Camp Fire books, which she has published both under her own name and the pseudonym "Margaret Love Sanderson." The author of the Miss Minerva novels, Emma Keats Speed Sampson, also wrote under the pseudonym of Margaret Love Sanderson.