![]() ![]() After his graduation in 1948, Adams joined the British Civil Service, rising to the rank of Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, later part of the Department of the Environment. He received a bachelor's degree in 1948, proceeding MA in 1953. Īfter leaving the army in 1946, Adams returned to Worcester College to continue his studies for a further two years. He served in Palestine, Europe, and East Asia but saw no direct action against either the Germans or the Japanese. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps and was selected for the Airborne Company, where he worked as a brigade liaison. In July 1940, Adams was called up to join the British Army. In 1938, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, to read Modern History. He attended Horris Hill School from 1926 to 1933, and then Bradfield College from 1933 to 1938. ![]() Richard Adams was born on in Wash Common, near Newbury, Berkshire, England, the son of Lillian Rosa (Button) and Evelyn George Beadon Adams, a doctor. ![]() In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Richard George Adams ( – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. ![]()
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