Frances Lincoln

Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an English independent publisher of illustrated books. She published under her own name and the company went on to become Frances Lincoln Publishers. In 1995, Lincoln won the Woman of the Year for Services to Multicultural Publishing award.

Career

In 1970, Lincoln started work as an Assistant Editor at the London-based publishing firm of Studio Vista. She went on to become its managing director. From Studio Vista, she moved to a job with the publisher Marshall Cavendish, and from there to Weidenfeld and Nicolson, where she was given her own imprint. In August 2011, The Quarto Group acquired Frances Lincoln Publishers for £4.5 million, making it the Frances Lincoln Children's Book imprint. The firm was known for the list of illustrated gardening books it published, and for its illustrated children's books. Sarah Garland's Azzi In Between, which won Little Rebels Book Award in 2013, and Lizzy Stewart's There's a Tiger in the Garden, which won the same prize in 2017.

Family

Frances Lincoln married John Nicoll, the author of the first book she had commissioned. Nicoll later headed Yale University Press in the United Kingdom. The couple had a son and two daughters. Lincoln died from pneumonia aged 55 in 2001.