Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-19580 was an American investigative journalist. Adams worked for the New York Sun and McClure's magazine. He was considered a muckraker for his writings on public health conditions. His essays on medicines had a huge influence on the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Adams was also a fiction writer. His short story Night Bus became the basis for the movie It happened One Night. Success begins "The lonely station of Manzanita stood out, sharp and unsightly, in the keen February sunlight. A mile away in a dip of the desert, lay the town, a sorry sprawl of frame buildings, patternless save for the one main street, which promptly lost itself at either end in a maze of cholla, prickly pear, and the lovely, golden-glowing roseo. Far as the eye could see, the waste was spangled with vivid hues, for the rare rains had come, and all the cacti were in joyous bloom, from the scarlet stain of the ocatilla to the pale, dream-flower of the yucca. Overhead he sky shone with a hard serenity, a blue, enameled dome through which the imperishable fires seemed magnified as they limned sharp shadows on the earth; but in the southwest clouds massed and lurked darkly for a sign that the storm had but called a truce."