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March 11, 1952, Cambridge, England, UK - May 11, 2001, Santa Barbara, California, USA - English writer, playwright and screenwriter, author of humorous fantastic works.

A few months after the birth of Douglas Jr., the family moved to East London. His younger sister, Susan, was born there three years later. Adams' parents divorced in 1957. Douglas, his mother and sister took up residence at the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals in Brentwood, Essex.

Graduated from Brentwood High School. He studied in college, in 1974 he received a bachelor's degree and later a master's degree. His specialization was English literature.

A significant role in the discovery of Adams belonged to Graham Chapman from Monty Python, in the 45th episode of the Flying Circus of which Adams starred in a cameo role and also participated as a sketch writer.

In March 1978, BBC radio launched his four-part production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which won the Imperial Tobacco Award (1978), Sony Award (1979) , "Best Program for Young People" (1980).

Some time later, Douglas Adams released a book of the same name, which was a phenomenal success and in 1984 topped the list of English bestsellers. Douglas Adams became the youngest writer to receive a Golden Pen (award given for 1,000,000 books sold).

In 1982, Adams 'books made it onto the New York Times bestellers list and Publishers' Weekly bestsellers list - for the first time since Ian Fleming, an English writer has been so successful in the United States.

In the same year, his first two books are adapted for a six-part television production that wins awards in the categories "Best TV Graphics", "Best VTR Editing" and "Best Sound".

In 1984, the fourth book in the series, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, was published.

In 1984, Adams began working with Infocom, the king of the adventure games genre in those years, and was directly involved in the development of the interactive fiction text quest The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The game won an award from Thames TV. On this cooperation Adams with the firm Infocom did not end, a little later he wrote another comic adventure game in the interactive fiction genre - "Bureaucracy".

Adams co-wrote the Fourth Doctor on Doctor Who, episodes The Pirate Planet and Shada.

In 1984, Douglas Adams, together with John Lloyd, wrote the non-fiction book The Meaning of Liff. The book was a success and in 1990 a sequel was published - "The Deeper Meaning of Liff".

In 1987, Adams tried his hand at a slightly different genre and published the book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" ("Dirk Gently's detective agency"), which is a mixture of mystery, detective and humor. Despite the restrained responses, a sequel was released a year later - "Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul" ("Long Tea Party").

In 1990, Adams, together with zoologist Mark Carvardine, published Last Chance to See, a book about rare and endangered animal species.

In 1991 the audiobook "HHGG" was nominated for the Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording of the Grammy Awards.

A year later, Adams writes the final, fifth book of the Guide - Mostly Harmless.

In 1993 "Making Of HHGG" was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the Video Home Entertainment Awards.

In 1996, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was ranked 24th on Waterstone's Books / Channel Four's 100 Greatest Books of the Century.

In 1998, Adams founded The Digital Villiage, a company that released the Starship Titanic, a computer quest game that same year.

In the last years of his life, Douglas Adams writes a new novel and helps the Disney studio to shoot the feature film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. His comment on this: “Yes, I know that Disney filmed Bambi, but remember that he also filmed The Terminator. I hope that "The Guide" will be something between these two films ... ".

Douglas Adams has also been an activist in environmental and endangered species movements, including programs to protect black rhinos and gorillas. He also played a lot of guitar (his collection included 24 left-handed guitars), influenced by Pink Floyd and Procol Harum. Adams was an enthusiast of technological progress and described himself as a "radical atheist"; Richard Dawkins dedicated his book "God as an Illusion" to him, jokingly calling him "apparently the only one I converted to atheism."

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