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Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist whose works include Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at Oxford before serving in the British Army during World War II.
May 13, 2024 · Richard Adams (born May 9, 1920, Wash Common, Berkshire [now West Berkshire], England—died December 24, 2016) was an English author known for reinvigorating the genre of anthropomorphic fiction, most notably with the beloved children’s book Watership Down (1972; film 1978), a novel that presents a naturalistic tale of the travails of a ...
The story began as tales that Richard Adams told his young daughters Juliet and Rosamund during long car journeys. He recounted in 2007 that he "began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of [his] head, as [they] were driving along".
May 8, 2020 · Over the past decade, the image of Watership Down ’s cartoon rabbits have been revived for a new generation in meme culture. Nearly 50 years have passed, and Richard Adams' cautionary tale remains starkly relevant. It’s quite amazing to think it was almost never published at all.
Dec 28, 2016 · British novelist Richard Adams, who died on Saturday, Christmas Eve, at the age of 96, had a late start in fiction writing which began with a story for his children . Read more at...
Dec 27, 2016 · Richard Adams was essentially a traditional Englishman with a love of the countryside and a belief that, somehow, things were better in the past.
Dec 27, 2016 · Richard Adams, the British novelist who became one of the world’s best-selling authors with his first book, “Watership Down,” a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic ...
Dec 24, 2016 · Richard Adams, Alan Aldridge (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions
Richard Adams has 88 books on Goodreads with 975961 ratings. Richard Adams’s most popular book is Watership Down (Watership Down, #1).
Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down (1974), Shardik (1976), The Plague Dogs (1978), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1985), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works of nonfiction, including his autobiographical The Day Gone By (1991).
