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Adams, Franklin Pierce, pseud. F. P. A., 1881–1960, American columnist and author, b. Chicago. He began (1903) work as a columnist on the Chicago Journal and continued it on the New York Evening Mail, the Tribune, the World, the Herald Tribune, and the Post. His column, "The Conning Tower," consisted of verse and humor by F. P. A. and his contributors, who included Ring Lardner Lardner, Ring (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885–1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919.
..... Click the link for more information. and Dorothy Parker Parker, Dorothy (Dorothy Rothschild Parker), 1893–1967, American short-story and verse writer, b. West End, N.J. While serving as drama critic for Vanity Fair (1916–17) and book critic for The New Yorker
..... Click the link for more information. . On Saturdays his columns were accounts of his week's activities that imitated the style of Samuel Pepys Pepys, Samuel (pēps), 1633–1703, English public official, and celebrated diarist, b. London, grad.
..... Click the link for more information. . They were republished as The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys: 1911–1934 (1935). Adams's other works included So There! (1923), Christopher Columbus (1931), and Nods and Becks (1944).