Samuel Hopkins Adams

Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871-1958, American author, b. Dunkirk, N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1891. He was a reporter for the New York Sun (1891-1900) and then joined McClure's Magazine, where he gained a reputation as a muckraker for his articles on the conditions of public health in the United States. Adams also wrote a series of articles for Collier's Weekly, in which he exposed patent medicines; these pieces were credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. Adams was a prolific writer, producing both fiction and nonfiction. His best-known novel, Revelry (1926), based on the scandals of the Harding administration, was later followed by Incredible Era (1939), a biography of Harding and his times. Among his other works are The Great American Fraud (1906), The Harvey Girls (1942), Grandfather Stories (1955), and Tenderloin (1959).

Adams, Samuel Hopkins (1871–1958), journalist and author, from 1900 to 1916 was associated with McClure's, Collier's, and the New York Tribune, for which he wrote muckraking articles. His books include The Great American Fraud (1906), on patent nostrums; Success (1921), a novel about modern journalism; Revelry (1926), a fictional account of the Harding administration, of which he also wrote a history, Incredible Era (1939); The Godlike Daniel (1930), a biography of Webster; The Harvey Girls (1942), a novel about the Fred Harvey restaurants; Canal Town (1944), a novel set in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1820; A. Woollcott: His Life and His World (1945); Grandfather Stories (1955), reminiscent tales told him by his grandfather, born in the 18th century; and Tenderloin (1959), a novel about New York's fast nightlife of the 1880s and 1890s.