Richard Adams (author)
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Richard George Adams (born May 9 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.
Richard Adams was a civil servant who worked for the Department of Agriculture. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters Juliet and Rosamund, and they insisted he publish it as a book. It took two years to write and was rejected by thirteen publishers.
Books
- Watership Down (1972)
- Beklan Empire
- The Plague Dogs (1977)
- The Girl in a Swing (1980)
- The Iron Wolf and Other Stories (1980, also published as The Unbroken Web)
- The Legend of Te Tuna (1982)
- Traveller (1988)
- The Day Gone By (autobiography) (1990)
- Tales from Watership Down (collection of linked stories) (1996)
- The Outlandish Knight (1999)
External links
- Richard Adams At Eighty (http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1615_277/ai_64752236)
- 1985 Audio Interview with Richard Adams - RealAudio (28 min. 55 sec.) (http://wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/)
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