Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams
Born	Douglas Noel Adams (1952-03-11)11 March 1952 Cambridge, England
Died	11 May 2001(2001-05-11) (aged 49) Montecito, California, US
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Occupation	Author screenwriter essayist humourist satirist dramatist
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Genre	Science fiction, comedy, satire
Notable work	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Dirk Gently
Notable awards	Inkpot Award (1983)[1]
Spouse	Jane Belson ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	1
Relatives	Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (great-grandfather)
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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into 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.^[2]

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, including the unaired serial Shada, 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 a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars,^[3] technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.