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. Richard Adams is the name of: Richard Adams (anthropologist), professor emeritus at the University of Texas Richard Adams (author) (b. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Ronald Mathias Lockley (November 8, 1903) - April 12, 2000 (aged 96)) was a Welsh naturalist and author who spent much of his later life in New Zealand. ... is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This page refers to the novel by Richard Adams. ... The Plague Dogs is the third novel of Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. ...

Life and work

"Watership Down" paperback cover 1996

Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. He served in the British Army from 1940 until 1946, during World War II. He was given a Class B discharge to continue his studies and in 1948 he received a master's degree from Worcester College at Oxford University. 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. Watership Down, generic front cover File links The following pages link to this file: Watership Down ... Watership Down, generic front cover File links The following pages link to this file: Watership Down ... Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Worcester College has been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century, even though the current college was founded only in the eighteenth century. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A grade in the British Civil Service, now more commonly styled Divisional Manager or Deputy Director. ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. ... The Department for the Environment (Formerly the Department of Environmental Protection) was West Australias environmental agency. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

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 Award for Children's Fiction 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. In the traditional sense, a classic book is one written in ancient Greece or ancient Rome (see classics). ... The Carnegie Medal in Literature was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As of 1982, he was President of the RSPCA. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare. ...

He also contested the 1983 general election, standing as an Independent Conservative in the Spelthorne constituency on a platform of opposition to fox hunting. The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... Spelthorne is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ...

He now lives, with his wife, Elizabeth, within 10 miles 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
• The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres (1977) (also published as The Ship's Cat) ISBN 9780224014410
• 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
• 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 (hb) / ISBN 1-903110-36-X (special signed edition)

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External links

• Richard Adams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Richard Adams at the Internet Book List
• Richard Adams at the Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Richard Adams At Eighty
• 1985 Audio Interview with Richard Adams - RealAudio (28 min. 55 sec.)
• Wrecking Ball Press publishers of 'Daniel'