English novelist. He wrote
Watership Down (1972), a story of rabbits who escape from a doomed warren and work together to establish a new one.
Tales from Watership Down (1996) continues the mythology. His other novels using animals as main characters are
Shardik (1974),
The Plague Dogs (1977), and
Traveller (1988), while
The Girl on the Swing (1980),
Maia (1984), and
Daniel (2006) have human protagonists. He has also written
The Days Gone By: An Autobiography (1990).
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