Author

Books by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a British author, screenwriter, and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began as a BBC radio comedy in 1978 and was adapted into a novel, a TV series, a stage play, a computer game, a towel, and eventually a film. The five-book "trilogy" — including The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless — has sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide. Adams was also a committed environmentalist and co-wrote Last Chance to See (1990) about endangered species. He died of a heart attack in 2001 at age 49.