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Frederick was born on November 4, 1857 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the first of five children of Frederick Abbot and Caroline Augusta (Allen) Stokes. His maternal ancestors had settled in Connecticut during the seventeenth century; his paternal grandparents emigrated from England in 1832. Three years after his birth his family moved to Detroit, where his father became a prosperous wholesaler and importer of groceries, wines, and other commodities.
Upon completion of his elementary education young Frederick was taken to Europe for travel and study. When he returned, he prepared for Yale at Cheshire Academy.
The background of cultural and intellectual interests provided by his family equipped him for active and successful participation in all phases of college life: academic, athletic, social, and literary. In the summer of his junior year he and seven classmates went to Europe, a journey which he first described in a series of contributions to the Yale Courant. These travel articles were so well received that, enlarged and revised for book form, they were published in 1880 by G. W. Carleton & Company under the title College Tramps. He received his B. A. degree in 1879.
After receiving his B. A. degree Stokes began to read law at home in Detroit, but within a few months he was on his way to New York City, having decided to abandon law for publishing. To learn the trade, he worked for Dodd, Mead & Company, a leading publishing house.
In 1881 he and J. Parker White organized their own publishing, bookselling, and stationery firm, White & Stokes; two years later Frank Allen joined the firm. In addition to standard authors and children's books, White, Stokes & Allen published art books, gift books, and decorated calendars of the sort which were so popular at the end of the nineteenth century.
In 1887 Stokes purchased the interest of his partners and took his brother, Horace S. Stokes, into partnership as Frederick A. Stokes & Brother. Three years later the firm dissolved, but the business continued as Frederick A. Stokes Company. Stokes conducted a small but successful firm, always quick to recognize trends of interest. Thus he published Anthony Hope and Marie Corelli and was credited with discovering Edna Ferber and Louis Bromfield. Though occasionally issuing more serious fiction and such works as Robert E. Peary's accounts of his polar expeditions, the firm leaned toward the popular. It maintained a notable list of children's books. Occasionally Stokes edited a work himself: an edition of Sir John Suckling in 1886, an anthology of vers de societe in 1890.
From 1898 to 1901 he also edited his own publication, The Pocket Magazine. In a period of publishing dominated by such large firms as those of Harper, Scribner, Appleton, and Lippincott, Stokes succeeded by careful selection of his books and keen awareness of what would sell.
His death, due to carcinoma, occurred in New York City.
Frederick Abbot Stokes was well-known as the publisher of such established writers as Francis Hodgson Burnett, Frank Buck, and Stephen Crane. He also published beginning writers such as James Branch Cabell, Maria Montessori, and Percival Wren. Best sellers included: The Story of Ferdinand, On Jungle Trails, Doctor Dolittle, When Worlds Collide, Guys and Dolls, and The Story of Little Black Sambo. Stokes was also known for publishing high quality art and children's books, such as "The Glue Books", a popular 17-volume series beginning with The House That Glue Built in 1905. He held offices in the American Publishers' Association (president, 1911 - 14), the Publishers' Committee on United War Work (chairman), and the National Association of Book Publishers (first acting president, 1919).
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Tall, carefully dressed, of courtly manner and scholarly demeanor, Stokes was regarded with respect by his colleagues.
On May 10, 1883, Stokes married Ellen Rebecca Colby.
