A poem entitled "A Dissertation on the task of writing a poem on a candle and an account of some of the difficulties thereto pertaining" written by Adams in January 1970 at the age of 17, was discovered in a cupboard at the school in early 2014. He also designed the cover of one issue of the Broadsheet, and had a letter and short story published in The Eagle, the boys' comic, in 1965. Some of his earliest writing was published at the school, such as a report on its photography club in The Brentwoodian in 1962, or spoof reviews in the school magazine Broadsheet, edited by Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, who later became a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide. Adams became the only student ever to be awarded a ten out of ten by Halford for creative writing – something he remembered for the rest of his life, particularly when facing writer's block. His ability to write stories made him well known in the school. His form master, Frank Halford, said that Adams's height had made him stand out and that he had been self-conscious about it. Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by age 12, and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). He attended the prep school from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until December 1970. At the age of nine, he passed the entrance exam for Brentwood School. Education Īdams attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. A great-grandfather was the playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind. Each remarried, giving Adams four half-siblings. His parents divorced in 1957 Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to an RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his maternal grandparents. The family moved a few months after his birth to the East End of London, where his sister, Susan, was born three years later. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.Īdams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh.Īdams was born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and computer salesman, former probation officer and lecturer on probationary group therapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan. He co-wrote the sketch " Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. Īdams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), and Last Chance to See (1990). Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – ) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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