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Douglas Noel Adams was born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952. "I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!"

He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English Literature. His first published work was a short story in Eagle comic, age 11.

He started writing and peforming seriously at Cambridge, and his early work led on from material written for Footlights 'smokers'. Some of his early work featured on Weekending, and The Burkiss Way. He also collaborated with Graham Chapman (from Monty Python) and produced a Radio 4 christmas pantomime.

He moved from radio to become script editor of Doctor Who, also writing several stories for the Tom Baker incarnation of the Doctor. He would work with Tom again in 1990 for the documentary Hyperland.

Whilst writing for Doctor Who, the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Ga

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Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.

He was creator of all the various manifestations of The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxywhich started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. Since its first airing in March 1978 it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a further two (a rare feat), and was nominated - though not selected - for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.

He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); and Mostly Harmless (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhik

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During the 1970s the scriptwriter and novelist Douglas Noel Adams generated much of the original material that would sustain him for the rest of his career.

Born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952, Adams read English Literature at the local University. Shortly after graduating he began writing comedy professionally for television and radio, initially in collaborations with Graham Chapman, most notably the pilot for the unrealised sketch series Out of the Trees (BBC2, tx. 10/1/1976).

He came into his own with his enduring comic science fiction classic, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. First broadcast on radio, it soon spawned a television series (BBC2, 1981), further radio series, commercial audio recordings and five novels. Brilliantly funny and fizzing with audacious Chestertonian conceits and paradoxes, it also demonstrated Adams' propensity for dark, almost Swiftian satire; the end of the world frequently recurs in his work, as does a melancholy delight in the eccentricities of the English character.

In 1978-79 Adams was script editor on Doctor Who (BBC, 1963-89; 200