Richard Adams

Richard Adams

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name = Richard George Adams



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Richard George Adams (born May 9, 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the writer of three novels featuring animal characters, in particular "Watership Down" and to a lesser extent "Shardik" and "The Plague Dogs". He also served on Faculty at the University of Florida. [ [http://www.english.ufl.edu/crw/ Department of English | Graduate Programs - MFA in Fiction & Poetry ] ]

Life and work

Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany. In 1940 Adams joined the British Army, in which he served until 1946. He received a class B discharge enabling him to return to Worcester to continue his studies for a further two years (1946-48). He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and of Master of Arts in 1953. [ [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4088/Adams-Richard-George.html Trevor Royle, 'Richard George Adams', Brief Biographies, Contemporary Novelists vol. 1 (accessed 2 April 2008)] Cf. ‘ADAMS, Richard George’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U5018, accessed 2 April 2008] ]

He was a senior civil servant who worked as an Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, later part of the Department of the Environment, from 1948 to 1974. Since 1974, following publication of his second novel, "Shardik", he has been a full-time author.

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. When "Watership Down" was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. "Watership Down" has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972. To date, Adams' best-known work has sold over 50 million copies world-wide, earning him more than all his other books put together.

As of 1982, he was President of the RSPCA.

He also contested the 1983 general election, standing as an "Independent Conservative" in the Spelthorne constituency on a platform of opposition to fox hunting.

He now lives, with his wife, Elizabeth, in Whitchurch, Hampshire, Hampshire, within convert|10|mi|km of his birthplace.

Books

*"Watership Down" (1972) ISBN 9780743277709
*Beklan Empire
** "Shardik" (1974) ISBN 9780380005161
** "Maia" (1984) ISBN 978-0-517-62993-2
*"Nature Through the Seasons" (1975) ISBN 9780722650073
*"The Tyger Voyage" (1976) ISBN 9780394407968
*"The Plague Dogs" (1977) ISBN 9780345494023
*"" (1977) (also published as "The Ship's Cat") ISBN 9780224014410
*"Nature Day and Night" (1978) ISBN 072265359X (with Max Hooper)
*"The Girl in a Swing" (1980) ISBN 978-0-7139-1407-8
*"The Iron Wolf and Other Stories" (1980, published in the USA as "The Unbroken Web") ISBN 978-0-517-40375-4
*"The Phoenix Tree" (1980, a collection by various authors, includes "The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle" from "Watership Down") ISBN 9780380763801
*"The Legend of Te Tuna" (1982) ISBN 9780283993930
*"Voyage Through the Antarctic" (1982; with Ronald Lockley), Allen Lane ISBN 0713913967
*"A Nature Diary" (1985) ISBN 0-670-80105-4 / 978-0-670-80105-3
*"Traveller" (1988) ISBN 978-0-394-57055-6
*"The Day Gone By" (autobiography) (1990) ISBN 9780679401179
*"Tales from Watership Down" (collection of linked stories) (1996) ISBN 9780380729340
*"The Outlandish Knight" (1999) ISBN 9780727870339
*"Daniel" (2006) ISBN 1-903110-37-8

References

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* [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1615_277/ai_64752236 Richard Adams At Eighty]
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/ 1985 interview with Richard Adams] by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
* [http://www.wreckingballpress.com/html/adams.php Wrecking Ball Press publishers of 'Daniel']


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