Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was an English author, humourist and screenwriter best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began as a 1978 BBC radio comedy and grew into a five-book series selling more than 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also wrote the Dirk Gently novels, co-wrote the comic dictionary The Meaning of Liff, and wrote the travel book Last Chance to See. He died in 2001 at 49, and his posthumous collection The Salmon of Doubt gathered his selected works.