The most successful Kansas woman writer
financially and the most prolific is Margaret
Hill McCarter of Topeka. From the advent
of her little book in 1901, ``A Bunch of Things,
Tied Up With Strings'' to the hearty reception
of her latest novel every step of the way spells
success.

Margaret Hill was born in Indiana and
came to Kansas in 1888 to teach English in
the Topeka High School. Two years later, she
became the wife of Dr. William McCarter. Of
this union there are two daughters, students
at Baker University and the Topeka High
School and a young son, his mother's literary
critic.

A wife and a mother first, a Kansas woman
second, and an author third is the way Mrs.
McCarter rates herself. She is capable of and
does do all her housework.

Her love for literature she owes to her
mother, who believed in higher education and
taught Margaret to prize the few books that
came her way.

After leaving the school room, the teacher
instinct still strong within her, she argued if