Author of many bestselling books, such as Just Among Friends (1928), Better than Gold (1949), and The Great Little Things (1953), George Matthew Adams was an American newspaper columnist, whose columns featured in The Gettysburg Times and many other newspapers. After graduating from Ottawa University in Kansas, Adams was employed in an advertising agency to operate the elevator. He worked his way up and became a copywriter in that very agency. He also founded the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service in 1907, a service that distributed comic strips and columns to newspapers.