Who is the author of the Cecil Adams columns?

Read the thread, too.

Good thing that’s not what the OP is doing then, huh?

I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Thanks for the Wall Street Journal article, Freddy.

Since we are in GQ can somebody come in and either verify the detail shown in Freddy’s link or deny it, giving cogent reasons for such a denial.

Many thanks.

Cecil is definitely only one person. We staffers are occasionally asked for help with articles, but we’re credited when so. Any article where he doesn’t mention getting help from staffers, it’s all him.

“Cecil Adams” is almost certainly a pseudonym, but I fail to see any particular significance to that.

He’s real. I actually met him. Just once.

For how long, and where?

Did he sing anything?

Was he armed?

For 20 minutes?

In 1960?