Oscar Fay Adams
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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1855}}
| birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|04|30|1855||}}
| death_place = North Truro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| occupation = Editor, author
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| nationality = American
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| alma_mater = New Jersey State Normal School}}
Oscar Fay Adams (1855–1919) was an American editor and author.
Biography
Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was educated in secondary schools, and graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School. He taught classes in English literature, and after 1880 wrote for periodicals.
He died in North Truro, Massachusetts, on April 30, 1919, aged 63 or 64.
Works
Adams wrote The Story of Jane Austen's Life (1891; second edition, 1896), The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment, and Other Stories (1899) and Dictionary of American Authors (revised edition, 1901). He edited Through the Year with the Poets (12 volumes, 1886).
References
{{Reflist|refs=
| editor1-first = John William
| editor1-last = Leonard
| editor2-first = Albert Nelson
| editor2-last = Marquis
| title = Who's who in America
| publisher = Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated
| volume = 5
| page = 11
| year = 1908
| location = Chicago
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eX0QOpl7iBQC&pg=PA11
| via = Google Books
| postscript= .}}
{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55982488/oscar-fay-adams-author-of-many/ |title=Oscar Fay Adams, Author of Many Volumes, Dies |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=21 |date=1919-05-01 |access-date=2020-07-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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- {{Cite web|url=http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/A/OscarFayAdams.html|title=Biography of Oscar Fay Adams|publisher=sacklunch.net|accessdate=25 April 2011}}
;Attribution
- {{NIE|wstitle=Adams, Oscar Fay|year=1905}}
External links
- {{Gutenberg author | id=38627| name=Oscar Fay Adams}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Oscar Fay Adams |birth=1855 |death=1919}}
- {{Cite web|title=Oscar Fay Adams (1855-1919): Two sonnets|url=http://www.sonnets.org/adams.htm|publisher=sonnets.org|accessdate=25 April 2011}}
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Category:Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts
Category:The College of New Jersey alumni
Category:19th-century American biographers
Category:American male biographers
Category:19th-century American short story writers
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