
As a writer and a radio and TV personality in the 1970s, Douglas Adams wasn’t having a great deal of success.
That is, until 1978 when he co-created a radio series called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
And when that series became a book, , well, as they say, the rest is history. Millions of people around the world now have a copy of that book and its sequels, which have made Douglas Adams one of the most popular authors of the second half of the 20th century.
I first met him in 1987, when we talked about his book Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Another time we talked about his nonfiction book Last Chance to See, and then in 1992 we met once again to talk about Mostly Harmless, which was, at the time, the latest in the Hitchhiker’s series.
So here now, from 1992, Douglas Adams.
Douglas Adams died in 2001 from a heart attack. He was 49.