Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams (born January 26, 1871 in Dunkirk , Chautauqua County , New York , † November 15, 1958 in Beaufort , South Carolina ) was an American journalist and writer .
biography
After attending the Free Academy in Rochester , he first studied at Union College in Schenectady , then at Hamilton College in Clinton , graduating in 1891 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then became a journalist for the New York Sun newspaper before he was a journalist for McClure's Magazine from 1901 to 1905 . He then worked as a freelance journalist and was one of the first musclists . His investigative journalistic reports in Collier’s magazine led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act . The reports appeared in the 1906 book The Great American Fraud .
After the novel Revelry , published in 1926 , he wrote a biography of Daniel Webster in 1930 with the title The Godlinke Daniel and in 1939 on US President Warren G. Harding with the title Incredible Era . This was followed by the novels The Harvey Girls (1942) and Canal Town (1944). Adams, who was also a member of the prestigious Dutch Treat Club in New York City between 1937 and 1958 , most recently wrote Grandfather Stories (1955). The book Tenderloin did not appear posthumously until 1959 .
Some of his books have been made into films, such as his novel Night Bus by Frank Capra in the film It Happened in One Night (1934) with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and The Gorgeous Hussy by Clarence Brown in the 1936 film of the same name with Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor .
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| SURNAME | Adams, Samuel Hopkins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunkirk , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1958 |
| Place of death | Beaufort , South Carolina |