Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a science fiction, humorist known for his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book series.

Educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St. John's College in Cambridge where he first earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 and later gained a Masters degree in English literature. Adams created the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, which started as a BBC Radio 4 program, in the later 1970s. The program first aired in March 1978 and was later incarnated into the best-selling novels, television series, a record album, a computer game, several stage adaptations and a couple of films which made this body of work a hit with fans of sci-fi, humor and modern literature alike. The phenomenal success of the series' first book went straight to number one in the United Kingdom Bestseller List and the popularity of subsequent titles in the series led to Adams being the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pen award in 1984.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
• Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
• So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984)
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
• Mostly Harmless (1992)
• The Salmon of Doubt (incomplete, 2002)

• 1952: Born

• 1974: Received BA in English Literature

• 1978: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins as a broadcast on BBC radio

• 1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• 1980: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

• 1982: Life, the Universe and Everything

• 1983: The Meaning of Liff (with John Llyod)

• 1984: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

• 1987: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

• 1988: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

• 1990 The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Llyod)

• 1990 Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine)

• 1992: Mostly Harmless

• 2001: Died from a heart attack

• 2002: The Salmon of Doubt posthumously published

• 2005: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie released

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