Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams 11 March 1952 11 May 2001 was an English writer humorist and dramatist He is best known as the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a trilogy of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime a television series several stage plays comics a computer game and in 2005 a feature film Adamss contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academys Hall of Fame