Saki is the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro or H.H. Munro, a British writer known mostly for his short stories. His satirical political writing is where his pen name emerged. It is either a reference to a cupbearer in Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a collection of Persian poetry translated by Edward Fitzgerald, or a South American monkey. Saki is believed to have been a homosexual but managed to keep... Read More
Susan Lillian Townsend was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. Townsend left school at the age of 14 and worked in a variety of jobs including packer for Birds Eye, a petrol station attendant and a receptionist. Working at a petrol station allowed her the chance to read between se... Read More
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams has established a reputation as a teller of tall tales, insightful writing about the human condition, and a purveyor of deadpan slapstick science fiction. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, private investigator Dirk Gently draws his old college friend Richard MacDuff into a twistin... Read More
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a playful and surreal exploration of the absurdity of life, made through the tale of a man travelling through the universe. In a quiet suburb of London, Arthur Dent is minding his own business when his morning is interrupted by bulldozers and wrecking machines coming to destroy... Read More
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The book was adapted from the remaining material in the radio series, covering from the fifth episode to the twelfth episode, although the ordering was greatly changed, and most of the Brontitall incident was omitted, instead of the Haggunenon sequence, co-written by John Loyd, the Disaster Area st... Read More
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio and developed into a "trilogy" of five books as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. In Life, the Universe and Everything,... Read More
Douglas Adams, in full Douglas Noël Adams, was a British comic writer whose works satirize contemporary life through a luckless protagonist who deals ineptly with societal forces beyond his control. Adams is best known for the mock science-fiction series known collectively as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide... Read More
The Salmon of Doubt is a collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams, published after the author's untimely death in 2001. It was to be the third in the Dirk Gently book series, following Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Adams said that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it... Read More
Douglas Adams was the best selling author of the popular book series The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams was born in March 1952 in Cambridge, England. He attended Brentwood boarding school, where he excelled in creative writing and successfully gained a place to study English Literature at Cambridge University. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detect... Read More
Douglas Adams was an English writer best known for the science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The series which originated as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a phenomenally successful book series also spawned a television series, stage plays and video games. Intelligent and creative from an early age, he started writing when he was in school. He received much enco... Read More