Scott Adams
Scott Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known for the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.
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- Works
- 52
Top works
- All Dressed Down and Nowhere to Go
- Dilbert 5. Odeio Reuniões! - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
- The O. P. Market
- Letters from Michael
- San Francisco Travel Guide 2017
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- Born
- Scott Raymond Adams , ( 1957-06-08 ) June 8, 1957, Windham, New York , U.S.
- Died
- January 13, 2026 (2026-01-13) (aged 68), Pleasanton, California , U.S.
- Education
- Hartwick College ( BA ) University of California, Berkeley ( MBA )
- Occupations
- Cartoonist writer political commentator
- Years active
- 1989–2026
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Scott Raymond Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.
Adams worked in various corporate roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. By the mid-1990s, Dilbert, created in 1989, had gained national prominence in the United States and began to reach a worldwide audience, remaining popular throughout the following decades and spawning several books written by Adams. In the mid-2010s, Adams emerged as an independent commentator on events and politics.
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