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Hitch Hiker's Guide to Galaxy Author Adams Dies
May 12, 2001 10:15 am EST
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Douglas Adams, the author of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy," has
died suddenly at the age of 49. Adams, who was married with a six-year-old daughter, died on Friday
morning in Santa Barbara, California, after a heart attack, his personal assistant Sophie Astin told Reuters.
"It was a very sudden and unexpected death," she said.
The author became a household name in Britain when his 1979 cult science fiction saga, about a group of
galactic travelers who survive the demolition of earth to build a space by-pass, was turned into a
BBC TV series.
Work is currently under way to turn the book into a Disney film, according to the author's official Web site.
British author and television personality Stephen Fry was among those who posted their condolences on the site on Saturday.
Astin said she had received calls from other friends of Adams such as Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame,
and David Gilmour of rock group Pink Floyd.
The satirical "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" centered on the search for an answer to life and the
universe -- which turned out to be 42.
The novel sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and was followed by sequels, "The Restaurant at the
End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe and Everything" and "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish."
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