Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958)
Auteur de The Pony Express
A propos de l'auteur
Samuel Hopkins Adams was born on January 26, 1871 in Dunkirk, N.Y. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1891. He was a reporter for the New York Sun and McClure's Magazine where his articles focused on the the conditions of public health in the United States. He also wrote a series of eleven afficher plus articles in Collier's Weekly exposing patent medicines and accusing their producers of making false claims and in some cases, damaging the health of their users. These articles were a huge influence on the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. He not only wrote for magazines, he also wrote fiction and nonfiction. His most popular novel, Revelry was based on the scandals of the Harding administration. His other titles include The Harvey Girls, The Grandfather Stories, and Tenderloin. Adams died Nov. 15, 1958 in Beaufort, South Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) Samuel Hopkins Adams was born 26 January 1871 in Dunkirk, New York. Adams graduated from Hamilton College in 1891 and was with the New York Sun until 1900. From 1901 to 1905 he was associated in various editorial and advertising capacities with McClure's syndicate and McClure's Magazine, and it was there the he earned a reputation as a muckracker for his articles on the conditions of public health in the United States. Adams also wrote a series of eleven articles for Collier's Weekly, entitled The Great American Fraud in which he exposed patent medicines; these pieces were credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act in 1906. In 1911 the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition of falsifications referred only to the ingredients of the medicine, meaning that companies could still make false claims about their products. Adams rebuttled this in articles in Collier's Weekly such as Fraud Medicines Own Up (20th January), Tricks of the Trade (17th February, 1912), The Law, the Label, and the Liars (13th April, 1912) and Fraud Above the Law (11th May, 1912), He exposed the misleading advertising that companies were using to sell their products. Adams was an American journalist and author of more than 50 books of fiction, biography, and exposé. He was also known as Warner Fabian, and as a prolific writer, produced 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). Samuel Hopkins Adams died 15 November 1958 in Beaufort, South Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: From "How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science" (Fisher & Fisk, 1916)
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Œuvres de Samuel Hopkins Adams
The great American fraud : Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from Collier's Weekly (1907) 12 exemplaires
Little Miss Grouch: A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage (1914) 8 exemplaires
Unforbidden Fruit. 4 exemplaires
The world goes smash 3 exemplaires
The Men In Her Life 2 exemplaires
Tambay gold 2 exemplaires
The piper's fee 2 exemplaires
Maiden effort, 2 exemplaires
Der Pony Express 1 exemplaire
Who and What, A Book of Clues for the Clever 1 exemplaire
Canal Town (abridged) 1 exemplaire
Such as Walk in Darkness 1 exemplaire
The flagrant years : a novel of the beauty market 1 exemplaire
Plunder : a novel 1 exemplaire
The health master, 1 exemplaire
Safe money: The record of one hundred years of mutual savings banking at the Auburn Savings Bank 1 exemplaire
Widow's oats 1 exemplaire
Perfect Specimen 1 exemplaire
Week-end girl 1 exemplaire
Whispers 1 exemplaire
The Godlike Daniel 1 exemplaire
The Corpse at the Table 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made Into Film (1960) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Curiosities of medicine;: An assembly of medical diversions, 1552-1962 (1963) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Omnibook Magazine (Overseas Edition for Armed Forces) July 1945 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
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- Autres noms
- Fabian, Warner
- Date de naissance
- 1871-01-26
- Date de décès
- 1958-11-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Dunkirk, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Dunkirk, New York, USA
Auburn, New York, USA - Études
- Hamilton College
- Professions
- journalist
novelist
screenplay writer - Organisations
- New York Sun
McClure's
Collier's
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 62
- Aussi par
- 21
- Membres
- 2,037
- Popularité
- #12,618
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 25
- ISBN
- 206
- Langues
- 2
A young American woman is running away from her family because she refuses to marry the man her father has picked out. She boards a ship for England and meets up with a young man after she accidentally stomps on his foot. She looks awful because she's been crying and upset. He helps her avoid pursuit and be able to stay on the ship unnoticed. Later she hears him telling a friend about her, describing her in very unflattering language and calling her "Little Miss Grouch." She's actually very pretty when she's not crying, as becomes obvious the next morning, when the young man falls in love with her (he's always called The Tyro, for some reason, although his name is actually Alexander).
Interfering acquaintances inform her father that this young man is hanging around the girl, and the captain is given authority to lock her in her room if The Tyro says one more word to her.
What follows is the story of how he tries to avoid her, and how she plays cat-and-mouse with him, and they generally both try to pretend that they don't care too much about each other. (Which manifestly isn't true.)… (plus d'informations)