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Douglas Noël Adams ( March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001) -- also known as Bop Ad or Bob after his illegible signature, or by his initials DNA -- was a British comic radio dramatist and author, most notably of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGG).
Adams was born in Cambridge and educated at Brentwood School, Essex where he became friends with Griff Rhys Jones. Adams attended St John's College, Cambridge, and worked with Rhys Jones in the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club. In 1974, Adams received a BAA Bachelor of Arts B. or A. is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. Duration The BA generally lasts three years in the United Kingdom (except Scotland) and Australia or four years in North America, (and later, an MAA master's degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. In the UK it is sometimes awarded for an undergraduate course whose final year consists of higher-level courses and a major re) in English literatureThe term English literature can mean: Literature from England written in the modern English language or its antecedents (such as Middle or Old English). The rest of this article discusses this category. Literature composed primarily in the English languag.
An autobiography from an early edition of one of the HHGG novels provided the following description of his early career:
Douglas worked with Graham ChapmanGraham Arthur Chapman ( January 8, 1941— October 4, 1989) was a British comedian and writer. He was one of the six Monty Python members and lead actor in their two narrative films (King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Brian in Life of Brian of Monty Python fame and has a writing credit in one episode (episode 45: "Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party") of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Subsequently he worked as a script editor of the BBC Television programme Doctor Who and wrote three serials for that series.
In 1979 Douglas Adams and John Lloyd together wrote the script for two half hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles, one of them called "The remarkable fidgety river". John Lloyd was also co-author of the original "Hitchhiker" radio series and of "The Meaning of Liff".