Does anyone not know who Douglas Adams is ? Well, here is an short introduction:
Douglas Adams created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originally appeared as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978. Since then it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a television series, records, cassettes and CDs, a computer game, a website and several stage adaptations.
His first Hitchhiker book went straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 he became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan, the first of three of these awards. He was also nominated for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards. More