Douglas Adams (English author & screenwriter)
- Douglas Noel Adams
- Дуглас Адамс
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- Adams, Douglas
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- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1952-03-11
- Place of birth
- Cambridgeshire
- Date of death
- 2001-05-11
- Place of death
- Santa Barbara
Wikipedia
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy evolved into a "trilogy" of six (or five, according to the author) books which sold more than 15 million copies in his life. It was made 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.
Adams 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 17th 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 called himself a "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums | Paperback | 978-3-453-40781-7 | 2009-11 |
Il salmone del dubbio | Paperback | 9788804741435 | 2021-09-12 |
Der lange dunkle Fünfuhrtee der Seele | Paperback | 3-548-22539-X | 1993-02 |
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis | Paperback | 3-548-22491-1 | 1993-10 |
Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums | Paperback | 3-548-31110-5 | 1989-02 |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts | Paperback | 9781509852796 | 2017 |
Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti (Il ciclo completo) | Paperback | 978-8804666851 | 2016-05-24 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Paperback | ? | 1995-09-27 |
Der Elektrische Mönch: Dirk Gently's Holistische Detektei | Hardcover | 3-8077-0226-1 | 1988 |
Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums | Paperback | 3-548-22492-X | 1993-11 |
Einmal Rupert und zurück | Paperback | 3-453-17070-9 | 2000 |
Die letzten ihrer Art: Eine Reise zu den aussterbenden Tieren unserer Erde | Paperback | 3-453-06115-2 | 1997 |
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