Richard Adams

Richard Adams was born in 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of a doctor. In 1938 went to Worcester College, Oxford, to study modern history. In 1940 he was called up into the British Army; he served in the Royal Army Service Corps with an airborne unit in Palestine, Europe and East Asia. After the war he finished his degree and joined the Civil Service, rising to assistant secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. He began telling the story that became Watership Down to his two daughters during a car journey, and they insisted that he write it down. Watership Down (1972), about a band of rabbits who leave their threatened warren to find a new home, was turned down by four publishers and three agents before a small publisher accepted it. It became a bestseller and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 1974, after publishing Shardik, he became a full-time writer; his other books include The Plague Dogs. He died in 2016.

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