Google Doodle Today Douglas Adams
March 11th, 2013. It is an interactive Google Doodle for Douglas Adams. It would be his 61st birthday today. Douglas Adams was an English writer, dramatist and humorist. He got famous with his "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It started as radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies. Douglas Adams died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 49.