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Douglas Adams—Cambridge

Birth

Douglas Adams was born and educated in Cambridge in 1952.

Education

He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read English.

Work

became interested in Douglas Adams because of an amazing speech that I came across online that he had made in Cambridge.

Douglas Adams was a devout Anglican until the age of 18. When he was born in 1952 his father was a postgraduate theology student at Ridley Hall, the Anglican Theological Training College in Cambridge, England. Later his father quit his studies for the Anglican priesthood and worked as a teacher of theology. [Source: "Douglas Adams Biography"; URL: ] Adams discussed his religious beliefs with interviewer David Silverman ("Life, the Universe, and Everything: An Interview with Douglas Adams" in The American Atheist Volume, Volume 37 No. 1; URL: ):

Douglas Noel Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in May 2001.

Douglas Adams was buried in the east cemetery after his death in 2001. Douglas Adams was a native of England, and most widely known for his book, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The grave of Douglas Adams is currently unmarked; however, those looking for an impressive headstone need look no further then the massive bust that adorns the grave of Karl Marx.

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Underneath them, a name, Douglas Adams. ... Douglas Adams books have entertained and inspired people of all ages around the world for years.

Douglas Adams' way of taking evolutionary ideas and turning them into the kind of stories you'd be laughing at in Hitchhikers'.