The English author passed away on Christmas Eve, his family reports. “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” So wrote Richard Adams, who has died at 96, in ...

Richard Adams, an Oxford-educated civil servant, was taking his two young daughters on a drive through the British countryside. They wanted to be entertained, and he complied.

Richard Adams (1920-2016) interviewed in 1978 by Richard Wolinsky. Richard Adams, the author of “Watership Down,” “Plague Dogs” “Shardik” and other novels, died on Christmas Eve, 2016 at the age of 96 ...

Author Richard Adams poses for a photograph on Oct. 18, 1978. The daughter of British author Richard Adams, whose 1972 book “Watership Down” became a classic of children’s literature, said ...