Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. Adams was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health injustices. He was the son of Myron Adams, Jr., a minister, and Hester Rose Hopkins. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York from 1887-1891, he also attended a semester at Union College. In 1907 Adams divorced his wife, Elizabeth Ruffner Noyes, after having two daughters. Eight years later Adams married an actress, Jane Peyton. Adams was a close friend of both the investigative reporter Ray Stannard Baker and District Attorney Benjamin Darrow.
Adams was a prolific writer, who wrote fiction as well. "Night Bus", one of Adams's many magazine stories, became the basis for the film It Happened One Night. Adams's first solo novel was in 1908, Flying Death, which added to his mystery collection. 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.
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Fiction, Juvenile literature, Social life and customs, Biography, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, History, New york (state), fiction, Advertising, American Authors, American Detective and mystery stories, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, CHR 1945, Child development, Cryptozoology, Curriculum planning, Detective Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Educational psychology, Employment, Exploitation, Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPlaces
United States, New York (State), Erie Canal (N.Y.), Canada, Frontier, Marion Ohio, Montauk Point (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.), Ohio., Washington (D.C.)People
Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943), Borah, Cinderella, Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Florence Harding, Gaston Means, Godahl, Harry Daugherty, Isaac Brock Sir (1769-1812), Jesse Smith, Lamson, Lamson's cook, Mark Hanna, Nan Britton, Peggy Eaton (1799?-1879), Sherlock Holmes, Wayne Wheeler, William Becknell (1787 or 8-1856)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL951984A
- ISNI: 0000000110271005
- VIAF: 54348554
- Wikidata: Q185406
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q185406
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- S.H. Adams
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