Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (actually Franklin Leopold Adams, * November 15, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, † March 23, 1960 in New York, NY) was an American journalist, translator and broadcaster. He worked under his pseudonym F.P.A.; the name Pierce is a tribute to the 14th President Franklin Pierce.

Biography

Adams was the son of Moses Adams and his wife Clara Schlossberg. After graduating, in 1899, at the Armour Scientific Academy, he studied at the University of Michigan. In 1903 he worked at the Chicago Journal. The following year, he joined the New York Evening Mail, where he remained from 1904 to 1913. As of 1913, Adams wrote to his own column in the New York Tribune. In World War I he fought with Alexander Woollcott and Harold Ross in Europe at the front. After the war he returned to New York and worked at the New York World until 1931. Later, Adams was working again at the New York Herald Tribune and in the tabloid New York Post. In the 1920s and 1930s he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a famous group of critics, actors and writers.

Family

1904 married Franklin Pierce Adams, the German -born Minna Schwartze, a Broadway showgirl. The marriage remained childless, divorced in 1924. A year later he married, part of the New York society esters root. Of their four children, Anthony, Timothy, Persephone and Jonathan went out. The marriage failed and in 1950 divorced.