Watership Down Writer Richard Adams Dies in Age 96

LONDON - British writer Richard Adams, whose 1972 book "Watership Straight down" became a vintage of children's literature, has died, in accordance with his daughter. He had been 96.

On Tuesday that Adams died within Oxfordshire juliet Johnson told The Associated Press, England on Christmas Eve after obtaining progressively weaker in current weeks.



"He died of what was previously called later years," she said, adding that her dad experienced a blood disorder also.

Adams' lyrical and poignant novel concerning the plight of rabbits whose house was under threat became a good astonishing achievement after it had been published. Favored by both adults and children, it has since offered an incredible number of copies and had been converted to a film, with a remake scheduled for next year.

It entered the favorite imagination and contains never been forgotten.

Adams dreamed up sun and rain of "Watership Down" whilst working as the civil servant and regaling Juliet and her sister Rosamond with stories regarding rabbits. He'd tell them the whole stories at bedtime and on car trips, often embellishing the tales while driving girls to school.

Johnson said the figures he described were "a little more babyish, more simplified" compared to the ones that resulted in the finished guide.

"I believe for Dad, that has been the beginnings just," she said of his oral storytelling. "It took him several years. He took lots of trouble writing that guide."

Johnson says you can find at least three previous versions of the book filled up with his handwritten modifications and notes.

Once the manuscript was finished, it had been rejected by publishers seven occasions until its publication within 1972.