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Douglas Adams

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March 11, 1952 in Cambridge, England, The United Kingdom

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May 11, 2001

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Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts; the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA".

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Average rating: 4.07 · 525,032 ratings · 12,620 reviews · 63 distinct works
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
Douglas Adams

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
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