Adam Herbert Dickey (June 26, 1864 – February 8, 1925), was an author, member of the Board of Directors of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a secretary to Mary Baker Eddy.

This inspired Dickey, upon returning to Kansas City, to immediately quit his job to become a Christian Science practitioner.

[2] Dickey's biography entitled Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy was published posthumously with the permission of his widow Lillian S. Dickey in 1927; however it was not published as an official biography sanctioned by the Mother Church to be sold in Christian Science Reading Rooms at the time.

[5] In 2013, his book finally appeared in the anthology We Knew Mary Baker Eddy Volume II alongside other early Christian Scientists such as Septimus J. Hanna and William R. Rathvon.

Dickey also wrote two of the most famous articles within the church in The Christian Science Journal entitled “God’s Law of Adjustment” and “Possession.”