The Hitchhiker
Douglas Noel Adams was born in 1952 in Cambridge, England. He was a self-described “strange child” who did not learn to speak until he was four. At first, he wanted to be a nuclear physicist, but ended up attending Cambridge to study English. “When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across Europe, he looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, ‘Somebody ought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ Then he went to sleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.” Years later, in 1977, BBC radio producer Simon Brett commissioned Adams to write a science fiction comedy for BBC Radio Four. Douglas originally imagined a series of six half-hour comedies called “The Ends of the Earth”-funny stories which, at the end of each, the world would end. In the first episode, for example, the Earth would be destroyed to make was for a cosmic freeway. But Douglas soon realized, if you are going to destroy Earth, you need someone to whom it matters in the story as well. He then created his two main characters: Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent. His humorous writing about science fiction became a success, and soon after, Pan Books approached him about doing a book based on the radio series. Do
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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