Polly jane rocket adams biography books
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Jane Belson, Douglas Adams&#; widow, passed away
| Polly Adams and Jane Belson (oil on Canvas, , Philip Morgan) |
Jane Belson just passed away, peacefully during her sleep, this morning 7th september , about ten years after her husband Douglas Adams. She was 59 years old and suffered from cancer for many years.
Jane Belson met Douglas after the break up with his previous love affair. He was then looking for a flat mate and they were introduced by a common friend Mary Allen. Jane moved in the spare bedroom in spring He was then trying to finish &#;Life, the universe and everything&#; : &#;There would be bursts of typing punctuated by long bits of guitar playing (acoustic &#; the electric guitar came later and annoyed the hell out of our neighboors). I&#;d come home from chambers to find Douglas waiting to read me what he had written, scrutinizing my reactions minutely and checking carefully to see that I was laughing in the right way at the right joke. It was my first encounter with a writer (well anybody really) who needed that level of reassurance&#; she told years later to Nick Webb, Douglas Adams first publisher and biographer (&#;Wish you were here&#;, ).
&#;Jane and Douglas became friends, then lovers and eventually soulmates&#; explained Nick Webb. After
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SURFER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
From NetGuide Magazine, December , pp
Douglas Adams offers opinions on flames, lurking and casual sex
By Bob Berge
"Can you imagine how surreal it must be to roll out of bed in the morning, turn on your computer and watch people from all over the world discuss every intimate detail of your personal life? It sounds like the beginning of a Douglas Adams novel."
It might be the beginning of his next novel, for this is how Adams occasionally starts his day--by surfing through s-adams on the Internet (where the above posting was found).
I'd been looking forward to interviewing the year-old "futuristic Mark Twain," author of the now-famous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Adams wrote the book when he was only 27, and since then more than 15 million copies have been sold. The London resident and his wife, Jane, recently had a baby girl (Adams posted this message to his newsgroup: "In the womb she acquired the nickname 'Rocket' ") and announced her birth by saying, "Her name is Polly Jane Adams. She's long and slim and incomprehensibly beautiful."
Unfortunately, my first encounter with Adams was to become a cyberspace screw-up After e-mailing a request for an interview, promptly receiving a "yes" and e-mailing again for a time and date, I hea
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