![]() ![]() His subsequent novels are The Plague Dogs (1977), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1984) and Traveller (1988), and his other books include The Iron Wolf and Other Stories, The Bureaucats, A Nature Diary, Voyage through the Antarctic (in collaboration with Ronald Lockley) and Tales from Watership Down, a companion volume that is also published by Penguin. In 1974 he retired from the Civil Service to devote himself to writing, and in that year he published Shardik, his second novel. Watership Down was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian award for children’s fiction for 1972. In the mix-sixties he completed his first novel, Watership Down, the story of which he originally told to his children to while away a long car journey. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the Civil Service. Adams was born in Berkshire in 1920 and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. ![]()
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