As Writer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
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Douglas Adams
Acting
Birth Date
March 11, 1952
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Date of Death
May 11, 2001
Biography
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame
