Douglas Adams has written at least 130 books. Their most popular book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with 2350 saves with an average rating of 4.25⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Science fiction, Fantasy, and Classics.
Adventurous, lighthearted, and funny are their most common moods.
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. Since its first airing in March 1978 it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations.
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's* phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a further two (a rare feat), and was nominated - though not selected - for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.
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); and *Mostly Harmless* (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate success when first aired in 1982. Other publications include *Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency* (1987) and *Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul* (1988). In 1984 Douglas teamed up with John Lloyd and wrote *The Meaning of Liff* and after a huge success *The Deeper Meaning of Liff* followed this in 1990). One of Douglas's all-time personal favourites was written in 1990 when he teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and wrote *Last Chance to See* -- an account of a world-wide search for rare and endangered species of animals.
He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.
Douglas was a founding director of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998 CD-ROM Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning (1999) and BAFTA-nominated (1998) adventure game.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack. He was 49. He had been living in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and daughter, and at the time of his death he was working on the screenplay for a feature film version of Hitchhiker.
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
30 • 2,350 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2
#2 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980 • 664 Readers • 250 pages • 4
#3 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1982 • 509 Readers • 240 pages • 4
#1-5, 4.5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 421 Readers • 815 pages • 4.4
#4 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984 • 413 Readers • 204 pages • 3.9
#1 of 3 in Dirk Gently
1987 • 364 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9
#5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 343 Readers • 277 pages • 3.7
#2 of 3 in Dirk Gently
1988 • 186 Readers • 326 pages • 3.8
#3 of 3 in Dirk Gently
2002 • 112 Readers • 292 pages • 3.6
1990 • 69 Readers • 206 pages • 4.3
#4.5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1986 • 63 Readers • 11 pages • 3.4
28 Readers • 4.1
#1 of 3 in The Meaning of Liff
1983 • 20 Readers • 191 pages • 3.3
2020 • 12 Readers • 208 pages • 3.9
#2 of 3 in The Meaning of Liff
1990 • 10 Readers • 156 pages • 3.5
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 8 Readers • 1,003 pages • 4.9
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1989 • 8 Readers • 624 pages • 5
1985 • 7 Readers • 248 pages • 4.8
#5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1992 • 6 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3
1979 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 2.2
#2 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980 • 5 Readers • 271 pages • 4.3
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 4 Readers • 4
#1-3 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1985 • 4 Readers • 468 pages • 5
#1 of 3 in Dirk Gently
2016 • 4 Readers • 640 pages • 3
#3 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1982 • 4 Readers • 208 pages • 4.3
2005 • 4 Readers • 300 pages • 4
2000 • 3 Readers • 95 pages
#4 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984 • 3 Readers • 142 pages
#5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1992 • 3 Readers • 191 pages
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 3 Readers • 323 pages • 4
#1-2 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 4.7
1985 • 3 Readers • 249 pages • 5
#1 of 2 in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Graphic Novels
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#0 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2002 • 3 Readers • 319 pages • 3
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 3 Readers • 204 pages • 3
1980 • 2 Readers • 208 pages • 4
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1979 • 2 Readers • 303 pages
2020 • 2 Readers • 4.5
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 2 Readers • 1,100 pages
2017 • 2 Readers • 592 pages • 5
1979 • 2 Readers • 6 pages • 3.5
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1990 • 2 Readers • 268 pages
2 Readers • 4.5
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 2 Readers • 140 pages • 4
#2 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980 • 1 Reader • 164 pages
#5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1992 • 1 Reader • 178 pages
1979 • 1 Reader • 278 pages • 4
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader • 221 pages • 5
1 Reader • 4
#1 of 3 in Dirk Gently
1987 • 1 Reader • 304 pages
#1 of 3 in Dirk Gently
1987 • 1 Reader • 239 pages • 4
#2 of 2 in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Graphic Novels
1993 • 1 Reader • 48 pages
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#2 of 1 in Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis - Comic-Reihe
1 Reader • 144 pages • 4
1979 • 1 Reader • 830 pages
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1979 • 1 Reader • 212 pages • 5
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1997 • 1 Reader • 196 pages
1979 • 1 Reader
1997 • 1 Reader • 133 pages
1982 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3
1992 • 1 Reader • 272 pages • 5
1 Reader • 5
#1-2 of 3 in Dirk Gently
1987 • 1 Reader • 576 pages • 4
1 Reader • 3 pages
1996 • 1 Reader • 799 pages • 4
#2 of 5 in Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series
1980 • 1 Reader
1979 • 1 Reader • 192 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 431 pages
1984 • 1 Reader • 142 pages • 5
1979 • 1 Reader • 326 pages
#4 of 5 in Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series
2005 • 1 Reader • 5
#2 of 5 in Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series
1980 • 1 Reader • 5
1999 • 1 Reader
2012 • 1 Reader
1975 • 1 Reader • 10 pages
#4 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984 • 1 Reader • 138 pages
#3 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1982 • 1 Reader • 162 pages
1997 • 1 Reader • 4
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader • 205 pages • 3
2011 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
#6 of 5 in Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series
2018 • 1 Reader • 4
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader • 1,112 pages • 4
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader
#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader • 878 pages • 5
1 Reader • 5
#3-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1 Reader • 542 pages • 3
#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 1 Reader • 216 pages • 5
2005 • 1 Reader • 844 pages
2020 • 1 Reader • 272 pages