| LC control no. | n 78079510 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6051.D345 |
| Personal name heading | Adams, Richard, 1920-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Adams, Richard George אדמס, ריצ׳רד, 1920־2016 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Whitchurch (Hampshire, England) |
| Birth date | 1920-05-09 |
| Death date | 2016-12-24 |
| Place of birth | Newbury (England) |
| Field of activity | Children's literature Fiction Poetry |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Poets |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Shardik, 1975, c1974. Du Maurier, D. The birds and other stories, 1980: t.p. (Richard Adams, head of the sixth form, Lord Williams' School, Thame) Cont. authors, New rev. ser., v. 3, c1981 (Adams, Richard (George) b. 5/9/20, Newbury, Berkshire, Eng.) Converted from 678 field 18 July 2014: Worcester College, Oxford; b. 1920 Bibliothèque nationale de France, via VIAF, 18 July 2014 (Adams, Richard; born 9 May 1920, Newbury, England; poet, novelist, author of children's books) Wikipedia, 18 July 2014 (Richard Adams; Richard George Adams; born 9 May 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire; novelist; Carnegie Medal, 1972, Guardian Prize, 1973; currently lives in Whitchurch, Hampshire) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 28, 2016 (in obituary published Dec. 27: Richard Adams; b. Richard George Adams, May 9, 1920, Newbury, England; d. Saturday [Dec. 24, 2016], aged 96; British novelist who became one of the world's best-selling authors with his first book, Watership Down, a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic perils explored Homeric themes of exile, courage, and survival; in later life, lived in Whitchurch, North Hampshire) |
| Associated language | eng |
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