Who Was Douglas Adams?

Douglas Adams was an author who was born on March 11, 1952 and passed away on May 11, 2001. He was the author to the novel called, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which was a science fiction novel that was published in 1979. In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he also wrote some sequels to the book. The sequels included Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) and So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984). Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987). Adams died in 2001 after suffering a heart attack at a gym in Santa Monica, California. In addition to writing science fiction, he also made contribution to the music field and to the video gaming field. He played the guitar left handed and took piano lessons. He also created an interactive computer game version of his famous novel.