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Douglas Adams

1952 - 2001

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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Adams has received more than 5,424,373 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Douglas Adams is the 672nd most popular writer (up from 752nd in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 614th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Writer.

Douglas Adams is most famous for his work on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Last chance to see
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera, Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Depois de oito anos vagando pelos mais insondáveis cantos da Galáxia, Arthur Dent está de volta à Terra e tudo parece estranhamente normal. Todas as coisas estão em seus devidos lugares – sua casa, seu emprego, seu planeta –, e é justamente por isso que ele começa a desconfiar de que ou ficou completamente maluco e tudo não passou de uma grande alucinação ou algo de muito mais estranho do que viagens espaciais a bordo de naves alieníge nas poderia estar acontecendo. Em busca de respostas capazes de explicar não só como a Terra poderia continuar a existir – já que ela havia sido destruída para dar passagem a uma estrada interplanetária anos antes –, mas também por que tudo estava absolutamente igual ao que era, exceto pelo misterioso desaparecimento dos golfinhos, Arthur começa uma nova jornada. Uma das poucas pessoas que poderiam ajudá-lo a compreender toda a história é Fenchurch, uma linda garota que tem surtos psicóticos desde que teve uma revelação transcendental sobre o porquê de as coisas darem sempre tão errado para os humanos. Decididos a encontrar a verdade, Arthur e sua nova companheira tentam descobrir se a CIA é mesmo a responsável por tudo, produzindo alucinações coletivas ao testar uma nova arma química, embora não acreditem nem um pouco nessa versão. Juntos, Arthur e Fenchurch vivem um grande, profundo e divertido amor, cheio de beleza e poesia – e repleto das mais inusitadas situações –, enquanto procuram o motivo de tanta confusão. Teriam os dois imaginado tudo aquilo? Mas, então, onde estariam os golfinhos? E o que queriam dizer com a mensagem "Até mais, e obrigado pelos peixes!"? Isso é o que você e Arthur Dent estão prestes a descobrir!
Mostly Harmless
Fiction
Raised on a planet at the remote edge of the universe, the daughter of Arthur Dent sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
First published to great acclaim in 1979, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been the source of incredible hilarity and mirth. Now comes the first-ever illustrated version of the mega-selling cult classic, packed with state-of-the-art, digitally generated graphic imagery and tricky visual puns. 40 full-color illustrations; voice chips.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Adams ranks 672 out of 7,302Before him are Eduardo Galeano, Sugawara no Michizane, Theodore the Studite, Matilde Camus, H. L. Mencken, and Carlo Gozzi. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lawrence Durrell, Marie de France, Maurice Blanchot, Sei Shōnagon, and Bernard Gui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Douglas Adams ranks 31Before him are Cyril Ramaphosa, Oleg Blokhin, Zoran Đinđić, Laura Branigan, Vahid Halilhodžić, and Gary Moore. After him are Neil Peart, Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, Lee Hsien Loong, John Goodman, and Isabella Rossellini. Among people deceased in 2001, Douglas Adams ranks 22Before him are Fred Hoyle, Wilhelm Mohnke, Iannis Xenakis, Gilbert Bécaud, Alberto Korda, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Nikolay Basov, Marie José of Belgium, Clifford Shull, Robert Ludlum, Dương Văn Minh, and William Hanna.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Adams ranks 510 out of 8,785Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Jim Clark (1936), Henry the Young King (1155), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), and Gary Moore (1952). After him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), William Wilberforce (1759), Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ælla of Northumbria (800), and Archer Martin (1910).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Douglas Adams ranks 59Before him are Daphne du Maurier (1907), Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), and Ian McEwan (1948). After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Beatrix Potter (1866), and Walter Raleigh (1554).