Richard Adams (author)

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Richard George Adams (born May 9 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.

Adams served in the British Army from 1940 through 1946, during World War II. In 1948 he received a master's degree from Worcester College at Oxford University. He was a senior civil servant who worked as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, from 1948 to 1974. Since 1974 he has been a fulltime author.

He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters Juliet and Rosamund, and they insisted he publish it as a book. It took two years to write and was rejected by thirteen publishers. When Watership Down was finally published, it quickly became a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, selling over a million copies in record time in both the UK and the US. To date, Adam's best-known work has sold over 50 million copies world-wide.

He also contested the 1983 general election, standing as an Independent Conservative in the Spelthorne constituency.

Books

• Watership Down (1972)
• Beklan Empire
  • Shardik (1974)
  • Maia (1984)
• The Plague Dogs (1977)
• The Girl in a Swing (1980)
• The Iron Wolf and Other Stories (1980, also published as The Unbroken Web)
• The Legend of Te Tuna (1982)
• Traveller (1988)
• The Day Gone By (autobiography) (1990)
• Tales from Watership Down (collection of linked stories) (1996)
• The Outlandish Knight (1999)

External links

• Richard Adams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Richard Adams at the Internet Book List
• Richard Adams at The Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Richard Adams At Eighty
• 1985 Audio Interview with Richard Adams - RealAudio (28 min. 55 sec.)