- Adams served in the British Army from 1940 to 1945, during World War II.
- His book 'Watership Down' has sold over 50-million copies worldwide.
- In December 2011, property developers announced that they were planning to develop Sandleford Park, near Newbury, Berkshire, in a real-life parallel to the fictitious development of this area which prompted the rabbits to leave the warren in the book and film of Watership Down (1978). Richard Adams announced he would organise stiff opposition to the development. "I'm going to oppose it tooth and nail. It's a beautiful piece of open country and the most beautiful area south of Newbury. The very idea of building on it makes your gorge rise.".
- He dedicated his novel "Watership Down" to his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, for whom he used to invent stories about rabbits and other animals while taking long drives to Stratford-on-Avon.
- A career civil servant until he became a full-time free-lance writer in 1974, Adams worked in the British Ministry of Housing and Local Development for twenty years (1948-1968), then was hired as Assistant Secretary to the Department of the Environment. These careers had an obvious influence on his fantasy novels.
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