Arthur Adams was born in
Lawrence, New Zealand, and educated at the
University of Otago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and began studying law. He then abandoned law to become a journalist in
Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to
The Bulletin, a Sydney periodical. He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as private secretary and literary advisor to
J.C. Williamson, a noted theatrical manager. In 1900 Adams travelled to China to cover the
Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for
The Sydney Morning Herald and several New Zealand papers. He would later return to New Zealand before moving to London in 1902, where he published several works including
The Nazarene (1902) and
London Streets, a collection of poems (1906). He had married Lily Paton in 1908. She and two daughters and a son survived him. ==Works==