It looks like you're offline.
Donate
English (en) Change Website Language
Open Library logo
additional options menu
Last edited by mheiman
March 25, 2022 | History
Edit

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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.

Photo of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Born 1871
Died 1958

54 works Add another?

Showing all works by author. Would you like to see only ebooks?

  • Cover of: Wagons to the wilderness: a story of westward expansion.

    First published in 1954 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Week-end girl

    First published in 1932 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Whispers

    First published in 1940 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Who and what: a book of clues for the clever

    First published in 1927 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Widow's oats

    First published in 1935 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The world goes smash

    First published in 1938 — 1 edition
    Borrow Listen

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: night bus

    First published in 2014 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: 2 Detectives: Average Jones / Dr. Furnivall, Physician-Detective

    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The Adams articles: published in the New York Tribune during nineteen-fifteen and the first half of nineteen-sixteen; specially selected

    First published in 1916 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: General Brock and Niagara Falls

    First published in 1957 — 1 edition
    Borrow Listen

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The President's mystery story

    First published in 1935 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The Harvey girls

    First published in 1942 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The piper's fee

    First published in 1926 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The flagrant years: a novel of the beauty market

    First published in 1929 — 1 edition
    Not in Library

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
Photo of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Born 1871
Died 1958

Subjects

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, general

Places

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)

Time

20th century, 1763-1867, 1849, 1901-1910, 1921-1923, War of 1812

Add to List

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

ID Numbers

Links outside Open Library

No links yet. Add one?

Alternative names

  • S.H. Adams

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
March 25, 2022 Edited by mheiman merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
October 10, 2018 Edited by mountainaxe1 Edited without comment.
October 10, 2018 Edited by mountainaxe1 Added new photo
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import