Considered one of the 'Seven Sisters' group of American women's service magazines, McCall's began in 1873 as a small-format monthly called The Queen. In 1897 it was renamed McCall's Magazine - The Queen of Fashion (the title was eventually shortened to McCall's). The magazine enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
