Douglas Adams was an English writer best known for his comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Douglas Adams was born on March 11, 1952 to Janet (née Donovan; 1927–2016) and Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985) in Cambridge.
Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) by age 12 and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m).
He attended The Brentwood School, a prestigious boarding school, and went on to study English at St John's College, Cambridge.
Following his graduation, Adams moved to London to pursue a career in television and radio writing.
Douglas Adams came up with the idea for his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1971. He was lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck, Austria with a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. Looking up at the stars, Adams thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well.
BBC Radio 4 first began transmitting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a science fiction radio series on March 8, 1978.
In 1974, Adams made two brief appearances in Monty Python's Flying Circus including one as a surgeon.
Adams also wrote three stories for Doctor Who and was script editor of the series in 1979.
After debuting as a radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
Douglas Adams once got an offering of £50,000 to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calendar. A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee. He celebrated with champagne.
Adams spent 20 years unsuccessfully assisting on a movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, and compared the experience to ‘trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it’. The sci-fi comedy adventure eventually came to the screen four years after his death.
Adams was also known for his humorous detective novels starring Dirk Gentley, and for his efforts to conserve endangered species.
In 1994, Adams was photographed climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wearing a rhino suit to help raise money for Save The Rhino.
Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of 24 left-handed guitars.
Adams died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001 aged 49 while he was working out at the gym in Montecito, California.
The Hitchhiker books describe a towel as "the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have". May 25 is Towel Day, an annual celebration of the works of Douglas Adams. The first Towel Day was on May 25, 2001, which was two weeks after Douglas Adams' death.
Adams was a self-proclaimed atheist and Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion to the writer.
Source Daily Express
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| Adams in March 2000 |
Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) by age 12 and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m).
He attended The Brentwood School, a prestigious boarding school, and went on to study English at St John's College, Cambridge.
Following his graduation, Adams moved to London to pursue a career in television and radio writing.
Douglas Adams came up with the idea for his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1971. He was lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck, Austria with a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. Looking up at the stars, Adams thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well.
BBC Radio 4 first began transmitting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a science fiction radio series on March 8, 1978.
In 1974, Adams made two brief appearances in Monty Python's Flying Circus including one as a surgeon.
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| Douglas Adams' first appearance in Monty Python |
Adams also wrote three stories for Doctor Who and was script editor of the series in 1979.
After debuting as a radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
Douglas Adams once got an offering of £50,000 to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calendar. A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee. He celebrated with champagne.
Adams spent 20 years unsuccessfully assisting on a movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, and compared the experience to ‘trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it’. The sci-fi comedy adventure eventually came to the screen four years after his death.
Adams was also known for his humorous detective novels starring Dirk Gentley, and for his efforts to conserve endangered species.
In 1994, Adams was photographed climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wearing a rhino suit to help raise money for Save The Rhino.
Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of 24 left-handed guitars.
Adams died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001 aged 49 while he was working out at the gym in Montecito, California.
The Hitchhiker books describe a towel as "the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have". May 25 is Towel Day, an annual celebration of the works of Douglas Adams. The first Towel Day was on May 25, 2001, which was two weeks after Douglas Adams' death.
Adams was a self-proclaimed atheist and Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion to the writer.
Source Daily Express
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