RICHARD ADAMS
Richard Adams was born May 9, 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, and he is not in the USA! But don’t forget that shipping was back then, so the people of the USA could read his books when he made them.
He went to Bradfield Collage in 1933 to 1938, and also went to Worcester Colleage to learn Modern History. He became a soldier in the British Army, and went back to Worcester to Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and Master of Arts in 1953 after the war.
Richard published a book called “Watership down”, made in 1971, and became internationally famous. Before he told “Watership Down” to his daughters, and he published it as a book because they asked him to. The story was a no-go for 13 publishers, but when it did get published, there were over a million copies sold. Now days it is a classic, and has the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Now there are over 50 million sold copies.
Adams created many other books, such as “Shardik” in 1974, “Nature Through the Seasons” in 1975, and “The Plague Dogs” in 1977. If you have a made-up story that you always tell your mom, dad, sister, brother, or your son and daughter (if a grown-up is reading this) every night, I bet you would get a huge shock if you published it, and it sold over a million copies like how Richard’s book did.
Source: Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
