Douglas Adams

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Aliases:
ダグラス アダムス, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, דאגלאס אדאמס, and 12 others Douglas Adams, Duglas Adams, דאגלס אדאמס, D. Adams, Dougls Adams, Doughlas Adams, Douglas Noel Adams, Douglas Noël Adams, Douglous Adams, דוגלס אדמס, Adams, 亞當斯
Born:
March 11, 1952
Died:
May 11, 2001

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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Adams was an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, a lover of fast …

Books by Douglas Adams