It didn't occur to me that it might actually be me years later. British author and television personality Stephen Fry was among hundreds of friends and fans who paid tribute to Adams on his official Web site. He was still coming up with more new ideas than almost anyone I've met. In August 1996, he told a technology conference in New Orleans that the main problem in adapting the series for film was not special effects. It's the nature of the story, which is picaresque, which translates to one damn thing after another, and another, and another.
Every script has a beginning and a middle and an end.
Geoffrey Perkins, who produced the original radio series and had known Adams for 25 years, called him one of the most creative geniuses to ever work in radio comedy. Adams was born in Cambridge, England, in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School in Essex and St. John's College, Cambridge, where in 1974 he gained an MA in English Literature. Adams married Jane Belson, a lawyer, in 1991. Adams is also survived by his mother, Jan Thrift of England.