Douglas Adams

Author 14 / Writer 2 / Creator · 1900 – 2005 · 🎬 2 📺 1 📖 14 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1978 radio comedy series which he adapted into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also adapted it into a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film.

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All · 17 🎬 Movies · 2 📺 TV · 1 📖 Books · 14

Fiction Science-Fiction Fiction, science fiction, general Fiction, humorous, general English literature

Highlights

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

1988

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

1987

Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)

1986

Frequent Collaborators

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Garth Jennings

2 shared

Simon Jones

2 shared

John Malkovich

1 shared

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Karey Kirkpatrick

1 shared

Ian McNeice

1 shared

Warwick Davis

1 shared

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📺 TV Shows

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

creator

1981

📖 Books

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

author

1988

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

author

1987

Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)

author

1986