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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Douglas Adams, J. B. Priestley, P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Elton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jerome K. Jerome, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Arthur William a Beckett, Barry Cryer, Vivian Stanshall, Mark Thomas, Peter Ustinov, Max Beerbohm, George Grossmith, Pat Condell, Martin Lewis, Stephen Potter, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Stuart Wilde, Michael "Atters" Attree, Francis Burnand, A. P. Herbert, Michael Wharton, Arthur Cecil, David Quantick, J. B. Morton, Tony Hawks, Tom Sharpe, Alan Coren, John Orlando Parry, Sue Townsend, Helen Fielding, Jonathan Routh, Frederick Hobson Leslie, Adrian Plass, David Baboulene, Gerard Hoffnung, Charlie Connelly, Mitch Murray, Henry Duff Traill, Hugh Kingsmill, Richard Corney Grain, Craig Brown, Barry Pain, Martyn Turner, Nigel Williams, William Jeffrey Prowse, Donald Jack, Arthur Roberts, Reginald Arkell, Geoffrey Willans, Louise Rennison, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, Tim Moore, Malcolm Pryce, Barry Pilton, George Moutard Woodward, John Hartley, Wendy Holden, William Ernest Bowman, Kenneth Walker, Fred Archer, Augustus Mayhew. Excerpt: Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, in...
