# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franklin-pierce-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:27:35.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franklin-pierce-adams"
name: "Franklin Pierce Adams"
slug: "franklin-pierce-adams"
description: "Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, \"The Conning Tower\", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and '30s."
tagline: "American newspaper columnist (1881-1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franklin_P._Adams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1881-11-15"
deathDate: "1960-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.74791333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump