Frances McCullough has been an editor of poetry for several major writers of the mid- to late-twentieth century, as well as an author and editor of cookbooks. She was awarded the first PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing in 1971, and worked as an editor at Harper & Row from the early 1960s through the late 1970s and at Dial Press and Bantam Books through the 1980s. Her papers document her work as a poetry editor and include correspondence with authors about their work, as well as manuscripts, notes, and proofs that document the creative and practical aspects of the editing and publication process. Her correspondents include Yehuda Amichai, Kathleen Fraser, Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes, Laura (Riding) Jackson, N. Scott Momaday, and W. D. Snodgrass. McCullough’s papers also contain materials she assembled for a book on Djuna Barnes, with whom she developed a friendship late in Barnes’ life.
