Scott Adams
Born: June 08, 1957 – Windham, New York, United States
Scott Adams is an American cartoonist and author best known for creating Dilbert, a workplace satire that was syndicated in thousands of newspapers worldwide. His books, including The Dilbert Principle and How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, focus on business, office culture, persuasion, and self-development.
Biography & Author's Journey
Scott Adams was born on June 8, 1957, in Windham, New York, and built his career out of the friction between corporate life and comic observation. He earned a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College in 1979 and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986, then spent the 1980s at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell. Those years in banking, finance, and technology gave him the bureaucratic language, managerial rituals, and office absurdities that later became his central subject. Dilbert debuted on April 16, 1989, and Adams remained at Pacific Bell until 1995, when the strip’s momentum made cartooning his full-time profession. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-Adams))
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"Every calamity has its bard, and downsizing's is Scott Adams"
— TIME
"Scott Adams, creator of the once-popular Dilbert comic strip, built his fanbase by mocking the petty tyranny of self-righteous hypocrites"
— Forbes
"Scott Adams, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump whose career flagged after a racist rant, died on Tuesday"
— Reuters
"Scott Adams is an avowed realist"
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"Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams dies at 68"
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"Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68"
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"Cartoonist Scott Adams has concocted a lucrative empire out of the drab lives of workaday drones"
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"Scott Adams, whose comic strip 'Dilbert' ridiculed white-collar office life, dies at 68"
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