Douglas Adams (Author)
DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49.
James Goss (Author)
James Goss is the author of the novelisation of Douglas Adams¿ City of Death, as well as several other Doctor Who books. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gently¿s Holistic Detective Agency. He won Best Audiobook 2010 for Dead Air and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. His novel Haterz has been optioned as a movie.
Über den Autor Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams, geboren 1952 in Cambridge, ist der Autor von Romanen, Sachbüchern Radiosendungen und TV-Serien. Die Idee zu seinem bekanntesten Werk, die Kult-Saga Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis, kam ihm, als er nach einem Kneipenbesuch in Innsbruck angetrunken auf einem Acker lag und in die Sterne schaute. Um die Verfilmung des Anhalters zu unterstützen, zog er 1999 mit seiner Familie nach Kalifornien, wo er 2001 überraschend starb. Zu seinem Gedenken findet jährlich am 25. Mai der sogenannte Handtuchtag statt.
