Richard Adams

Richard Adams was a British novelist best known for Watership Down, one of the most beloved and acclaimed novels of the twentieth century. Born in Newbury, Berkshire, in 1920, he worked as a civil servant before publishing his debut at the age of 52. His fiction includes Watership Down — an epic adventure following a group of rabbits seeking a new home — which won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The novel has been adapted into an animated film and a BBC/Netflix series. Adams also wrote Shardik and The Plague Dogs. Adams died in 2016. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most beloved animal fiction ever written — stories of courage, adventure, and the search for home.