To many, the story did, yet Richard Adams, the author of “Watership ... to be divine, and “Traveller,” a historical novel about the Civil War narrated by General Robert E.

Richard Adams was born on May 9, 1920 in Berkshire. He did not begin writing until 1966, when he began telling his young daughters the story of a rabbit warren during a road trip.

Richard Adams, the bestselling English author best known for his hugely influential 1972 debut novel Watership Down, which has been adapted numerous times, including the acclaimed 1978 animated ...