Getting to know the author – Richard Adams

Richard George Adams was born in 1920 and studied in Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. He served five years in the army and joined the Civil Service between 1948 and 1974. Adams is most famous for Watership Down which was awarded both Carnegie Medal and the Guardian awarded for children’s fiction in 1972.

Adams retired from the Civil service in 1974 to continue to persuade writing, and published his second novel. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth and two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond in the South of England. Adams is living in his 90 now.