Frances Foster

Frances Foster ( Starbuck, June 3, 1931 – June 8, 2014) was a children's books editor.

Early life and career Frances Foster, Frances Starbuck, was born on June 3, 1931. Her father was a banker and her mother an artist. Born in Oakland, California, Foster and her family moved to Berkeley after her parents opened a weaving studio, where she spent most of her childhood.

After she finished studying, Foster spent one year working in Rome. She then returned to the United States in search of a job in the book publishing industry. She went to Alice Dalgliesh's office and asked her for a job, which Dalgliesh offered, as her previous assistant was going on maternity leave. The imprint would publish around a dozen new children's books every year,

Personal life Foster married her husband in 1956, with whom she had two children. Foster was cousin to writer and poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, and her grandmother's brother was Elbert Hubbard, an artist who founded the Roycroft Press.

Death Foster died on June 8, 2014, at the age of 83. According to her daughter, it was due to a stroke she suffered in 2012.