Franklin P. Adams

1881–1960 · American columnist (“The Conning Tower”) & Algonquin Round Table wit

Franklin Pierce Adams, who signed his work “F.P.A.,” was a Chicago-born newspaper columnist. His long-running column The Conning Tower began at the New-York Tribune in 1914 and ran in several New York papers. He belonged to the Algonquin Round Table and was later a regular panelist on the radio quiz Information Please.

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