The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
Lilian Jackson Braun
Was born in 1916.
Literary career began when she was two.
Mother's influence .
Work was first published when she was just
sixteen.
Was a big baseball fan.
A copywriter.
Detroit Free Press
First novel, The Cat Who Could Read
Backwards.
Left Michigan to move to North Carolina
(1989).
Is married to actor Earl Bettinger, has two cats.
In January 2007 the twenty-ninth novel was
released.
Takes place in Moose County in the small
town of Pickax.
The story begins on Monday, November
Eleventh an ends on Monday, November
Twenty-fifth.
Jim Qwilleran newspaperman; a prize-
winning reporter with a nose for crime.
Koko a Siamese cat with extraordinary
talents and a flair for mystery; loves, when
Qwilleran reads to him.
Yum Yum a lovable Siamese adored by her
two male companions.