[1] He edited children’s magazines for 30 years, and for most of that time he worked with his wife, Ella Farman Pratt.

[1] In 1875, when Pratt was 21 years old, he became the art editor of Wide Awake, a children’s magazine published by D. Lothrop Company in Boston.

[3] As art editor Pratt hired many well-known illustrators, including William Parker Bodfish and Frederick Childe Hassam.

He won a one-thousand-dollar prize for his story A Celestial Crime,[3] which was published in the December 1897 issue of The Black Cat, another S. E. Cassino Company publication.

[1] The obituary published in his hometown newspaper states that he suffered a “paralytic shock,” which caused a lingering illness, but that he “bore his severe burden with fortitude.”[3] For many years he got by on his savings, but the September 1920 issue of The Writer contained this brief notice: “The Boston Transcript publishes an appeal for financial aid for Charles Stuart Pratt of Warner N. H., who with Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt formerly edited the magazine, Wide Awake, and who is now poor and helpless with paralysis in his old age.”[15] Pratt died in Warner, New Hampshire, on April 3, 1921.