Biography for
Richard Dawkins More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

26 March 1941, Nairobi, Kenya

Birth Name

Clinton Richard Dawkins

Nickname

Darwin's Rottweiler
Dr Why

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse

Lalla Ward	(1992 - present)
Eve Barham	(1 June 1984 - ?) (divorced) 1 child
Marian Stamp	(19 August 1967 - 1984) (divorced)

Trivia

His wife, the former actress Lalla Ward (The Hon. Mrs. Dawkins), is now an illustrator and illustrates his books.

He holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

Author of "The Blind watchmaker" and other books that often debunk religious ideas and explore evolution.

Personal Quotes

Universal love and welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.

I've always thought of Douglas (Douglas Adams) more as a writer of "science comedy", comedy of a sophisticated, scientific kind, than as a writer of science fiction. I'm not an aficionado of science fiction, although the genre has some value in teaching science and stretching the scientific imagination. But so many of Douglas's jokes are scientific jokes, and you don't get them unless you know the science. The first thing you notice about his writing is the verbal repartee. When I read Dirk Gently, every sentence had me laughing. It's fascinating, because it's a mixture of science fiction, comedy, ghost story, detective story, even a certain amount of literary scholarship. Douglas read English Literature at Cambridge and the set-piece about academic life in Dirk Gently is gorgeous.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was the only book I've ever read where I turned back to page one and read it all the way through again. I felt there was so much more I could get out of it.