Scott Adams

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 from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

His most notable work, among many he has authored or had creative input in, is Dilbert, which launched in 1989 in a handful...