Jack Hale Adamson (1918–1975) was a literary scholar, biographer, teacher, and university administrator.
The son of prominent Idaho statesman William Lennox Adamson, Adamson was born in 1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and lived in the small town of Carey, Idaho.
[1] He received a PhD in English literature from Harvard University in 1956, specializing in the poetry and political philosophy of John Milton.
Along with co-author Harold F. Folland, he wrote The Shepherd of the Ocean, a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh,[3] which was published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain.
In 1974, Adamson and Folland published a biography of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, early governor of Massachusetts and central figure in the English Revolution.