Scott Adams (1) (1957–)
Author of The Dilbert Principle
About the Author
Scott Adams, Cartoonist Scott Adams was born and raised in Windham, New York in the Catskill Mountains. He received a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a certified hypnotist. Adams worked in a bank for eight years show more and, while a bank teller, was robbed twice at gunpoint. He also worked for Pacific Bell for nine years and describes both jobs as "humiliating and low paying jobs." It was during this time, that Adams created the character Dilbert. He was entertaining himself during meetings by drawing insulting cartoons of his co-workers and bosses. In 1988, he mailed some sample comic strips featuring Dilbert to some major cartoon syndicates. He was offered a contract and Dilbert was launched in approximately fifty papers in 1989. Adams began working on Dilbert full time as well as speaking, writing, doing interviews, and designing artwork for licensed products. Dilbert is published in over 1,200 newspapers and has a hard cover business book called "The Dilbert Principle." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Scott Adams
The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers (1998) 1,306 copies, 6 reviews
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (2014) 746 copies, 25 reviews
I'm Tempted to Stop Acting Randomly: A Dilbert Book (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi) (2010) 92 copies, 2 reviews
Problem Identified: And You're Probably Not Part of the Solution (Volume 34) (Dilbert) (2010) 72 copies
The Dilbert Omnibus: "The Dilbert Principle", "The Dilbert Future" and "The Joy of Work" (2002) 31 copies
Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success (The Scott Adams Success Series) (2023) — Author — 26 copies
Dilbert 1. Corra, O Controle De Qualidade Vem Aí! - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2008) 9 copies
Multimedia volgens Dilbert 4 copies
Como é Bom Trabalhar! Manual de interpretações do Dilbert para encontrar a felicidade à custa dos colegas (2000) 3 copies
Best of Dilbert. Die wahnwitzigsten Episoden, besten Geschichten und skurrilsten Ratschläge (2010) 2 copies
Dilbert. Bürowitze 1 copy
Dilberts lille blå bog 1 copy
Dilbert Gets Reengineered 1 copy
De Dilbert omnibus 1 copy
Dilberts lov om ledelse : en kontorslaves syn på sjefer, møter, ledelsesteorier & andre plager på… (1998) 1 copy
Il futuro secondo Dilbert 1 copy
Lockruf des Wochenendes 1 copy
Rat für die Ratlosen 1 copy
Associated Works
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contributor — 165 copies, 3 reviews
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- Legal name
- Adams, Scott Raymond
- Birthdate
- 1957-06-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Windham, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Dublin, California, USA
- Education
- Hartwick College (BS ∙ Economics ∙ 1979)
University of California, Berkeley (MBA) - Occupations
- restaurateur
cartoonist
novelist - Organizations
- International Academy of Digital Arts and Science
Scott Adams Foods Inc (Chief Operating Officer) - Awards and honors
- Reuben Award (1997)
Newspaper Comic Strip Award (1997) - Short biography
- Adams is trained as a hypnotist and is a vegetarian. He is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire and commentary and business and general speculation.
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Statistics
- Works
- 195
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 33,144
- Popularity
- #580
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 358
- ISBNs
- 645
- Languages
- 22
- Favorited
- 40