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Douglas
Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood
School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he
gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
He
was creator of all the various manifestations of The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxywhich started life as a BBC Radio 4
series. Since its first airing in March 1978 it has been transformed
into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a
computer game and several stage adaptations.
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book
straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas
Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a
further two (a rare feat), and was nominated - though not selected -
for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.
He
followed this success with 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 first two books in the Hitchhiker series
were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate
success when first aired in 1982. Other publications include
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and Long
Dark Tea-time of the Soul (1988). In 1984 Douglas teamed up with
John Lloyd and wrote The Meaning of Liff and after a huge
success The Deeper Meaning of Liff followed this in 1990). One of
Douglas’s all-time personal favourites was written in 1990 when he
teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and wrote Last Chance
to See – an account of a world-wide search for rare and
endangered species of animals.
He
sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was
also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.
Douglas
was a founding director of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, a
digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998
CD-ROMStarship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning (1999) and
BAFTA-nominated (1998) adventure game.
Douglas
died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack. He was 49. He
had been living in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and
daughter, and at the time of his death he was working on the
screenplay for a feature film version of Hitchhiker.
(www.douglasadams.com)