What is Richard Adams?
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox writer | name = Richard Adams | birth_name = Richard George Adams | image = Richard Adams 20081116.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Richard Adams reads from Watership Down | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1920|05|09}} | birth_place = [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]], Berkshire, England | death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|2016|12|24|1920|5|9}} | death_place = [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]], England | occupation = Novelist | nationality = English | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''[[Watership Down]]'' | awards = {{awd|[[Carnegie Medal]]|1972}} {{awd|[[Guardian Prize]]|1973}} | signature = | website = }} '''Richard George Adams''' (9 May 1920 &ndash; 24 December 2016) was an English author. His most famous book, ''[[Watership Down]]'', began as a story to tell his daughters.<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/richard-adams-forever-animated-by-the-life-of-animals-1974572.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Richard Adams: Forever animated by the life of animals | date=16 May 2010}}</ref> Adams won both important British children's book awards, the [[Carnegie Medal]] and the [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]]. Adams was in the British Army during [[World War II]]. Later he joined the [[British Civil Service]]. Two years after ''Watership Down'' was published, Adams became a full-time author. He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.rslit.org/people|title = Current RSL Fellows|publisher = Royal Society of Literature|accessdate = 24 September 2013|archive-date = 2 October 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121002061545/http://www.rslit.org/people|url-status = dead}}</ref> Adams died on 24 December 2016 at the age of 96 in [[Oxford]], England from complications of a blood disorder.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-adams-best-selling-british-author-of-wa