Douglas Adams: 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, and his main interest was science. As a student in Cambridge he decided to hitch-hike through Europe to Istanbul, and in order to raise funds for this he took a lot of small jobs. In 1970 he left school to...
Known For: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Writer), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Writer), Starship Titanic (Writer), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show Live (Writer(creator))