It was written when he was 93.ĭuring his later years Richard and his wife Elizabeth lived in Whitchurch, Hampshire, very close to Watership Down, and not far from where they had both grown up. His goal was always to tell a good story, ideally one so good you can't put it down! His last work, 'The Adventures of Eggbox Dragon', which is a picture-book for younger children, will be published posthumously by Hodder in 2017. Others of his books include Shardik, Maia, Tales from Watership Down, The Girl in a Swing and The Plague Dogs, the last two of which, together with Watership Down, have been filmed. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972. When Watership Down was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. They insisted he publish the tale as a book. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, on a trip to Stratford-on-Avon, to see a play. “They’ll be alright - and thousands like them.Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is best-remembered as the author of Watership Down, but wrote many other novels, short stories, poems and a biography. “You needn’t worry about them,” said his companion. “It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses. In its statement, the family referenced a moving section of the story involving Hazel, an important character in the book.
The book also was adapted into a 1978 animated film. Published in 1972, it sold over one million copies in record time in the United Kingdom and the United States, became a modern classic and won a bevy of awards.
They insisted he publish it as a book, his website explains. The beloved British legend of children’s literature died on Christmas Eve, relatives said.Īdams began telling the story of “Watership Down,” a dark and perilous adventure about rabbits looking for a new home, to his two daughters. Richard Adams, author of the famous children’s book “Watership Down,” has died at the age of 96, his family said in a statement on his official website.
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