Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams signing books at ApacheCon 2000
Born	( 1952-03-11 ) 11 March 1952 Cambridge , United Kingdom
Died	11 May 2001 (2001-05-11) (aged 49) Montecito, California , U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	English
Citizenship	English, American
Known for	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Notable work	Monty Python , Doctor Who , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 ? 11 May 2001) was a British writer . He is most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Adams was born in Cambridge . When he was a few months old he moved to East London and a few years later to Brentwood, Essex . He originally received attention when he wrote for the popular TV shows Monty Python and Doctor Who in the 1970s . In 1978 he wrote a science-fiction radio series called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . It was later turned into a novel . In the early 1980s , it became a television series and in 2005 it became a movie produced by Disney . Adams also wrote several sequels for radio and as novels. He was also known for his humorous detective novels starring Dirk Gently, and for his efforts to conserve endangered species . He was an atheist. ^[1] In 2001, Adams died of a heart attack while he was working out at the gym in Montecito, California , United States .

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1. ↑ Biblio.com

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