He and in December of 2016 in Oxford at the age of 96.
and also became active in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Adams was the writer-in-residence at universities in England and the U.S. The book sold a million copies worldwide in its first few years in print and has gone on to become recognized as a modern classic. Adams wrote Watership Down and began sending it to agents and publishers it was rejected several times before at last being acquired by a publisher named Rex Collins. He had a love for storytelling, and when he began telling a story about a group of rabbits to his two young daughters, they urged him to write the tale down.
After leaving the army in 1946, Adams finished his degree at Oxford and went on to join the British Civil Service, eventually working in the Department of the Environment. The son of a well-to-do doctor, Adams attended the prestigious Oxford University, though his education was interrupted when he was called to serve in the British Army during World War II. Richard Adams was born in the English countryside-an evocative, lush place he would later use as the setting for his most famous novel, Watership Down.
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