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Richard Adams

(Richard George Adams)

(1920 - )

About Richard Adams

Richard Adams was born in Berkshire, England, in 1920, and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning Watership Down, his first book.

Series

Beklan Empire
1. Shardik (1974)
2. Maia (1984)

Novels

Watership Down (1972)
The Tyger Voyage (1976)
The Plague Dogs (1977)
The Girl in a Swing (1980)
The Legend of Te Tuna (1982)
Traveller (1988)
The Outlandish Knight (1999)
Daniel (2006)

Collections

The Iron Wolf: And Other Stories (1980)
The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables (1980)
Tales from Watership Down (1996)

Picture Books

The Ship's Cat (1977)

Anthologies edited

Sinister and Unnatural Stories (1978)
aka Sinister And Supernatural Stories
Richard Adams's Favourite Animal Stories (1981)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (1981)

Non fiction

Nature Through the Seasons (1975)
Nature Day and Night (1978)
Voyage Through the Antarctic (1982)
A Nature Diary (1985)
The Day Gone By: Autobiography (1990)
Antarctica: Voices from the Silent Continent (1990)

Anthologies containing stories by Richard Adams

Shivers for Christmas (1995)

Short stories

	Back of the Moon (1980)
	The Blind Boy and His Dog (1980)
	The Cat in the Sea (1980)
	Crab (1980)
	The Crimson Parrot (1980)
	The Crow and the Daylight (1980)
	The Giant Eel (1980)
	How Long Will You Live? (1980)
	A Hundred Times (1980)
	The Iron Wolf (1980)
	The Language of Animals (1980)
	Mice in the Corn (1980)
	The Moddey Dhoo (1980)
	The Nightingale (1980)
	Prince Meerzat Istvan and the Horse of Dust and Thunder (1980)
	The Robin (1980)
	The Rocks of Korsan (1980)
	Stan Bolovan and the Dragon (1980)
	The Woodpecker (1980)
	The Bommie and the Drop-Off (1995)

Awards

	Carnegie Medal Best Novel winner (1973) : Watership Down
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1975) : Watership Down

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