author
Samuel Hopkins Adams
1871–1958
Best remembered as a fearless muckraker, he helped expose the patent-medicine industry and wrote with the pace of a born storyteller. His career ranged from hard-hitting journalism to popular historical fiction and biography.
16 Audiobooks
The Mystery
by Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Secret of Lonesome Cove
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
From a Bench in Our Square
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Unspeakable Perk
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Beggar's Purse: A Fairy Tale of Familiar Finance
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Wanted: A Husband. A Novel
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Success: A Novel
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Flaming Youth
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Average Jones
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Health Master
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Clarion
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Our Square and the People in It
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Common Cause: A Novel of the War in America
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Flying Death
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
About the author
Born in Dunkirk, New York, on January 26, 1871, he studied at Hamilton College and began his newspaper career at the New York Sun. He later became one of the notable investigative journalists of the Progressive Era, especially through his work for Collier's Weekly.
His best-known nonfiction work grew out of the 1905 Collier's series later collected as The Great American Fraud, which attacked false claims and dangerous practices in the patent-medicine business. He also wrote more than 50 books across fiction, biography, and exposé, showing an unusual ability to move between reporting and narrative storytelling.
He died in Beaufort, South Carolina, in November 1958. Today he is remembered both as a prolific author and as a writer whose reporting helped push public attention toward health reform and consumer protection.