Richard Poate Stebbins

Richard Poate Stebbins (January 4, 1913 – February 1, 2011) was an American historian, political analyst, and editor. He and his mother Lucy Poate Stebbins co-authored three books - Enchanted Wanderer, Frank Damrosch: Let the People Sing and The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family (both 1945). He later worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he later edited volumes such as The United States in World Affairs and Documents on American Foreign Relations, and after his retirement published So Hard the Stones (1993) and The Making of Symphony Hall (2000). Biography Early life and career Stebbins was born on January 4, 1913, in Mount Vernon, New York,

In 1938, Stebbins and his mother went to Europe as Oberlaender fellows to work on their Carl Maria von Weber book Enchanted Wanderer, which was released in 1940. The mother-son duo co-authored Frank Damrosch: Let the People Sing and The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family (both 1945). That same year, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a historical study of art patronage". In 1962, he became a senior research fellow there, serving until 1978.

Stebbins died on February 1, 2011. (ed. with Grayson L. Kirk) War and National Policy: A Syllabus, Farrar & Rinehart (1942) (with Lucy Poate Stebbins) Frank Damrosch: Let the People Sing (1945) (with Lucy Poate Stebbins) The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family (1945) (ed.; by Herbert Rosinski) Power and Human Destiny (1965) (ed. with Alba Amoia) Political Handbook and Atlas of the World (1970) The Career of Herbert Rosinski: An Intellectual Pilgrimage (1989) (ed.) The Japan Experience: The Missionary Letters of Belle Marsh Poate and Thomas Pratt Poate, 1876-1892 (1992) Multi-volume The United States in World Affairs (1950-1968)