Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952-2011) was an English writer and the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a best-selling science fiction story that is available as a book, a radio series, a television program, and a feature film. Experience this comedic sci-fi classic as an audiobook – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy audiobook is performed by English actor, comedian, and author Stephen Fry.

Continue your journey through the galaxy with other audiobooks from Douglas Adams’ popular sci-fi series: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, The Universe, and Everything (1982), So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (1984), and Mostly Harmless (1992). The sixth book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was written by Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl. And Another Thing... was published in 2009 to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.

Other books by Adams include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988). A compilation of Adams' work is contained in The Salmon of Doubt, a collection of writings, including an unfinished novel, published posthumously in 2002. Adams’ style of comedic science fiction writing made him popular both within the sci-fi reading community and beyond.
In addition to his novels, Douglas Adams spent a season as script editor for Doctor Who, and wrote a number of episodes for the popular sci-fi television program too.

Adams supported a number of environmental campaigns to protect endangered species, including the British organisation Save the Rhino International. Adams also joined author and conservationist Mark Carwardine to write and present the BBC radio documentary Last Chance to See. In Last Chance to See the Adams and Carwardine travelled to various parts of the world to highlight the plight of endangered species such as the Komodo dragon in Indonesia and the Amazonian manatee in Brazil. The journey taken by Adams and Carwardine is chronicled in the book Last Chance to See (2001) which Adams describes as his favourite book during a talk he gave at the University of California.

Douglas Adams studied a BA in English at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was born 11 March 1952 in Cambridge, England, and died 11 May 2001 in California, United States. He was 49.