A former co-host of the daily
All Things Considered program, Adams is currently the contributing correspondent at the network's National Desk. His books tend to document a full year in his life, specifically as that year relates to a particular passion or research project. He wrote and narrated a documentary called
Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown in 1981, which earned him the Prix Italia, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Major Armstrong Award. Adams was the host of the nationally syndicated
Minnesota Public Radio variety show
Good Evening, created in 1987 to replace
A Prairie Home Companion after that show left the air.
Good Evening ran for less than a year before being canceled;
A Prairie Home Companion returned after a several-year hiatus. == Personal life ==