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Scott Adams
Creator
08 Jun 1957
† 13 Jan 2026
Windham, NY
Biography
Scott Raymond Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American author and cartoonist. He was the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, commentary, and satire. Adams grew up in Windham, NY — in the Catskill Mountains. He has a younger and older sibling and was the son of a postal clerk and a real estate agent. He graduated his high school’s Valedictorian and continued studying to earn his BA in economics from Hartwick College, and furthered that to an MBA fr...
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Dilbert
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