Adams, Richard (George) (1920– )

English novelist. He wrote Watership Down (1972), a story of rabbits who escape from a doomed warren and work together to establish a new one. Tales from Watership Down (1996) continues the mythology. His other novels using animals as main characters are Shardik (1974), The Plague Dogs (1977), and Traveller (1988), while The Girl on the Swing (1980), Maia (1984), and Daniel (2006) have human protagonists. He has also written The Days Gone By: An Autobiography (1990).