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© Jill Furmanovsky, 1999 (This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This will not be the final version of the text I use.) Writer, born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, then worked as a writer, producing material for radio and television shows, and also for stage revues. He is known for his humorous science fiction novels, especially The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979, originally a radio series, 1978, 1980, later televised).
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