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''The Chicago Reader'' registered Cecil Adams as a trademark in 1986, stating in their application that “Cecil Adams does not identify any particular individual but was devised as a fanciful name.” The trademark registration also notes that it was first used in 1973, i.e., when the column began. (The trademark was abandoned in 1989.) Thus, it seems likely that the pseudonym is applied to a group or series of writers, much like Carolyn Keene is used as the putative author of the Nancy Drew book series. Adams himself claims that he has “never been photographed,” but Ed Zotti , Adams’s “assistant and editor,” who fulfills Adams’s publicity engagements, has appeared in at least one photo captioned “Cecil Adams.” In his columns, Adams has revealed a few details of his personal life. He is married, and it is believed that he has children. He is an accomplished traveler, and currently resides in Chicago. He also attended Northwestern University (he mentions having taken a class with Northwestern English Professor Bergen Evans {Link without Title} ). Cecil Adams’s columns are archived at the Straight Dope website, which also hosts a popular Internet Forum . In 1996 , The A&E Network briefly aired a show hosted by comedian Mike Lukas based on the column called, of course, ''The Straight Dope''. To date, Adams has published five collections of his ''The Straight Dope'' columns, and has watched as his “assistant” published a children’s collection in ''The Straight Dope'' style titled ''Know It All''. He has been “fighting ignorance since 1973,” and there are over 600 articles available for browsing in the online archive, all illustrated by Slug Signorino , a successful commercial artist, who, like Cecil, is very secretive. EXTERNAL LINKS
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