Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96

The author of "Watership Down," Richard Adams, has died aged 96, his daughter says. The tale, first told by Adams on a long car journey with his daughters, turned into a best-seller. Adams, a civil servant from Newbury in Berkshire, also wrote "Shardik," "The Plague Dogs" and "The Girl in a Swing." "Watership Down," which he wrote when he was 52, won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the year of publication. Tens of millions of copies have since been sold around the world.
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