Franklin Pierce Adams

's personal experiences. Adams graduated from the Armour Scientific Academy in 1899 attended the University of Michigan for one year and worked in insurance for three years. Radio
As a panelist on radio's Information Please (1938–48) he was the designated expert on poetry old barroom songs and Gilbert and Sullivan which he always referred to as Sullivan and Gilbert.

P. A prolific writer of light verse he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.