Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio novels TV computer game stage adaptations comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington London before moving to Santa Barbara California where he died suddenly in 2001. In addition to Hitchhiker He is also the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt. John Lloyd is a television producer and writer and has worked on programmes such as Not the Nine O'Clock News Spitting Image The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Blackadder and QI. . Language: English