A genius dies - Richard Adams, author of Watership Down

He lived to the age of 96 - a 'good innings' by any standards - and was hale and hearty until very recently.

I have read only his Watership Down, and autobiography - not fancying the other fictions; but I regard Watership Down as a truly great book, right up there at the pinnacle of the Fantasy genre:

https://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/brief-review-of-watership-down-by.html