James L Adams

Who is James L Adams?

Veteran journalist James L. Adams grew up during the Great Depression and W.W.II in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in south central Kentucky--the setting for his first novel. He attended a one-room school in the first grade, a two-room school from second to eighth grade and a four-room high school ? all in Kentucky.The Adams family moved at the end of W.W.II to Cincinnati. Adams received a Certificate in Journalism from the University of Cincinnati Evening College in 1950. Following two years of military service with the U.S. occupation forces in Frankfurt, Germany, Adams enrolled at Ohio State University in 1953. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1955. He was awarded a Fellowship to the Washington (D.C.) Journalism Center at American University in 1967. He won a Medill Fellow scholarship to the Urban Journalism Center at Northwestern University in 1973.Adams began his journalism career at suburban Chicago newspapers in 1955. In 1962, he returned to Cincinnati to join The Cincinnati Post staff as a general assignment reporter. He later became an assistant metro editor and city editor, retiring as associate editor-columnist in 1991.He has written two non-fiction books: The Growing Church Lobby in Washington (William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mi., 1970), and Yankee Doodle Went to Church, (Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, N.J., 1989).He and his wife, Phyllis, are the parents of three daughters and one son. They also have one granddaughter.