Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Dec 11, 2025 · Douglas Adams (born March 11, 1952, Cambridge, Eng.—died May 11, 2001, Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.) was a British comic writer whose works satirize contemporary life …

Douglas Adams. Writer: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Born Douglas Noel Adams on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge. From 1959 until 1970 he went to Brentwood school in Essex, …

Mar 3, 2025 · Douglas Adams's epic series of comic novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is loved by scientists and tech executives, including Elon Musk. In 1986, the author talked to …

Douglas was a founding director of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998 CD-ROM Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning …

Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001) was a celebrated British author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the …

Mar 27, 2025 · Douglas imagined this in 1978, many years before the internet. He imagined AI, lifts that talk to us and many of the things we live with today, when they didn’t exist at the time.

May 11, 2001 · Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio …

Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. He was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with …

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[a][b] is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.