biography
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Adams, Richard (George)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Berkshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and after wartime service in the army worked as a civil servant in the Department of the Environment (1948–74). He made his name as a writer with the best-selling Watership Down (1972), an epic tale of a community of rabbits. Later books include Shardik (1974), The Plague Dogs (1977), The Iron Wolf (1980), The Bureaucrats (1985), Traveller (1988), and Tales from Watership Down (1996). His autobiography The Day Gone By appeared in 1990. |
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