Oscar Fay Adams (1855–1919) was a
United States
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editor and
author
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.
Biography
He was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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, 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.]North Truro, Massachusetts
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on April 30, 1919.[
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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).[
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1855 births
1919 deaths
American editors
Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts
The College of New Jersey alumni
19th-century American biographers
American male biographers
19th-century American short story writers
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