Richard Adams
Sign in to saveEnglish novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 May 1920
- Died
- 24 December 2016
- Works
- 126
Top works
- ウォーターシップ・ダウンのうさぎたち
- Stories
- Shardik
- Tales from Watership Down
- Watership Down
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Wisdom — Self2008
- Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars — Self1999
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — P.O.W. #11983
via TMDB
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- 432
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Richard George Adams (born 9 May 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the author of Watership Down. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. He is now semi-retired. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,606x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,098x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,736x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,121x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
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Quotes
- “El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
- “Look! ... That's the place for us, Hazel. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to.”
- “To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse—the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.”
- “You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
- “Animals don't behave like men...If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
- “Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask — perhaps more than once — where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard George Adams , ( 1920-05-10 ) 10 May 1920 , Newbury, Berkshire , England
- Died
- 24 December 2016 (2016-12-24) (aged 96), Oxford , England
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Worcester College, Oxford ( BA , MA )
- Period
- 1972–2010
- Genre
- Children's literature adventure fantasy
- Notable works
- Watership Down Shardik The Plague Dogs The Girl in a Swing
- Notable awards
- Carnegie Medal , 1972 , Guardian Prize , 1973
- Spouse
- Barbara Elizabeth Acland ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 10 May 1920
- Died
- 24 December 2016
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Newbury
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- poet
- Employer
- University of Florida
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Richard George Adams FRSL (10 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist. He is best known for his debut novel Watership Down which achieved international acclaim. His other works included Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, before serving in the British Army during World War II. After completing his studies, he joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author.
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