Richard Adams—England
Birth
Richard Adams: born in Berkshire 1920; Watership Down Rex Collins 1972 U.K. & MacMillan 1974 U.S.A.
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Richard Adams (born May 9, 1920) is a British novelist who is best known for his sophisticated fantasy novels featuring animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.
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Education
Richard Adams was born in 1920, the son of a country doctor at Newbury, Berkshire, and in his childhood came to know well the Kennet valley and the open country lying between Newbury and the Southern Downs. He was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire, and at Worcester College, Oxford (of which he was a Scholar).
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Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. He served in the British Army from 1940 until 1946, during World War II. He was given a Class B discharge to continue his studies and in 1948 he received a master's ...
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Work
Richard Adams - CEO Doctors.net.uk group Richard joined Doctors.net.uk in September 2007. He was previously Senior Vice President EMEA at Sabre Holdings, the parent company of Travelocity.com and lastminute.com. Richard has many years' experience in the healthcare sector having served as Managing Director UK and Vice President Europe for Dendrite International and, earlier, in a variety of positions at IMS Health. He began his career as a medical representative for Wellcome.
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He served five years in the army before entering the civil service. He is, of course, best known for Watership Down which was published in several editions, included illustrated and signed limited editions.
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In February 1998, Richard Adams (UK) took over the Arachnology Mailing List and in 2000, Nils took over the list once again.
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And Watership Down, Richard Adams' version of The Odyssey (featuring rabbits instead of humans), began as a story told to amuse the author's preteen daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, on a long car drive.
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Richard Adams, a journalist on the Guardian, is writing a biography of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. Search the web for Richard Adams: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia
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Adams, Richard (George Adams) (1920– ), British novelist and writer of children's fantasy literature. His distinctive trademark is the use of animal protagonists: rabbits search for the promised land in Watership Down (1972), a bear is deified in Shardik (1972), and dogs escape from an experimental lab in The Plague Dogs (1977). Adams's choice of subject‐matter not only demonstrates a sensitivity toward animals; it also reflects his interest in the animal tale, which suggests we should read his stories as allegories ...
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Audio Interview with Richard Adams Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Maia, and Shardik, talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview. Adams credits his entire writing career to fellow author, Joseph Campbell and Campbell's book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which synthesizes the common themes a hero faces throughout world mythology. Adams did not start writing until he was in his forties, but he had always been a storyteller, which he explains is one of the oldest professions in the world. His father told stories to him and eventually he began telling stories to his children. After years of private storytelling, Adams' children prompted him to write down his stories and Watership Down was born. Listen in RealAudio to the Richard Adams interview with Don Swaim, 1985
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