Richard Adams (author)

Richard George Adams (born May 9 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.

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May 9 - 1920 - Newbury, Berkshire - England - Novelist - Animal characters - Watership Down - The Plague Dogs

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Adams served in the British Army from 1940 through 1946, during World War II. In 1948 he received a master's degree from Worcester College at Oxford University. He was a senior civil servant who worked as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, from 1948 to 1974. Since 1974 he has been a fulltime author.

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1940 - 1946 - 1948 - Assistant Secretary - 1974

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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 quickly became a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, selling over a million copies in record time in both the UK and the US. To date, Adam's best-known work has sold over 50 million copies world-wide.

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He also contested the 1983 general election, standing as an Independent Conservative in the Spelthorne constituency.

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1983 general election - Spelthorne

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