Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was born in 1952, stood one metre ninety-six tall, and after Cambridge wrote for a television comedy troupe before joining public radio as a producer. His inability to hand in a manuscript on time became a publishing anecdote: his publishers are said to have kept watch over him in a hotel room to obtain a book. He devoted his last years to ecology and digital technologies. He died of a heart attack in 2001, aged forty-nine.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · 1979Literature