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Richard George Adams (born May 9 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for deuce novels sustaining animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.
Adams served in the British Army from either 1940 through 1946, during Globe War II. Inside 1948 he received a master's degree from either Worcester College at Oxford University. He wwhen the senior civil servant world health organization worked as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, from 1948 to 1974. Since 1974 he has been a fulltime creator. He originally began telling a story of Watership Down to his ii girl Juliet & Rosamund, & it insisted he publish it as a book. It took 2 years to write & was rejected by long dozen publishers. After Watership Down was eventually published, it quickly became a immense profits witharound two sides of a Atlantic, selling above the million copies in record instance in two the UK & the U.s.a.. Up to now, Adam's right-known act has sold ended 50 million copies globe-wide. He besides contested a 1983 general election, standing as an Independent Conservative in the Spelthorne constituency.
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Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Richard Adams Reviews of Richard Adams' novels "Maia" and "The Girl in a Swing". |
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