Oscar Fay Adams

Oscar Fay Adams (1855–1919) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He lectured to classes on English literature and history and on Gothic architecture.

He is remembered for his Dictionary of American Authors (first published 1884, and much enlarged in later editions), and he also wrote Post-Laureate Idyls (1886) and a volume of stories, The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment (1899).