WATERSHIP DOWN Author Richard Adams Dies at 96

Richard Adams, the English author best known for his 1972 best-selling novel "Watership Down", has passed away at the age of 96.

The news was announced in a message on Adams official website which reads:
"Richard's much-loved family announce with sadness that their dear father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away peacefully at 10pm on Christmas Eve."

Adams originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, and they insisted he publish it as a book. When Watership Down was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972. It has been adapted numerous times, including the acclaimed 1978 animated film and a 1990s animated series

Others of his books include Shardik, Maia, Tales from Watership Down, The Girl in a Swing and The Plague Dogs.

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