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View ArticleCats in the 19th Century (Part 13-Mark Twain’s Cats)
The cranky cynical American writer Mark Twain (1835-1910), kept the company of up to 19 cats at a time. Mark Twain’s cats had such names as Sour Mash, Appollinaris, Zoraster, Blatherkite, and...
View ArticleCats in the 19th Century (Part 14-Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat)
The tormented American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), had a beloved pet cat named Catterina. Edgar Allan Poe’s black cat often perched on his shoulders while he wrote as if overseeing...
View ArticleCats in the 20th Century (Cats in Literature-Doris Lessing)
The noble prize winning author Doris Lessing was influenced by her deep relationships with cats. In An Old Woman and Her Cat (1972) the main character Hetty, poor, widowed and abandoned by her...
View ArticleCats in the 20th Century (Cats in Literature-Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) author of On the Road (1957) wrote about the death of one of his favorite cats, Tyke, in his memoir Big Sur (1962). Tyke was Kerouac’s calico Persian whose death he strangely...
View ArticleCats in the 20th Century (Cats in Literature-Haruki Murakami)
The Japanese author, Haruki Murakami known for liking and having cats has included them in many of his works. In The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle the story revolves around Toru Okada’s missing cat that he...
View ArticleCats in Film — The Cat’s Eye (1985, Stephen King)
Stephen King’s (a well-known cat lover) 1985 comedy horror The Cat’s Eye is comprised of three stories: Quitters Inc., The Ledge and “General”. The only thing the three stories have in common is a...
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