About The Author

Richard Adams was born in 1920. He attended Bradfield College and after that he went to Worcester College, Oxford to read modern history. He served in the British Army during World War II, and then worked in the civil service. The story of Watership Down  began as a story that he was telling his two girls, they insisted that he write it down. He wrote the 426 page book in only two years. The book was published two years later in 1972. He won the Carnegie Medal for Watership Down, and over 1 million copies were sold worldwide.

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