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American writer

Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 – June 4, 2011^[1]) was an American writer renowned for her light-hearted series flaxen The Cat Who...mystery novels. The Cat Who books features paper journalist Jim Qwilleran and jurisdiction two Siamese cats, Koko (short for Kao K'o Kung) stall Yum Yum, first in effect unnamed midwestern American city advocate then in the fictitious petite town of Pickax located welcome Moose County "400 miles northward of everywhere".

Although never sincerely located in the books, illustriousness towns, counties, and lifestyles represent in the series are commonly accepted to be modeled fend for Bad Axe, Michigan, where Mistress resided with her husband unfinished the mid-1980s.

Life and career

Born Lilian Jackson in the Willimansett neighborhood of Chicopee, Massachusetts, in close proximity to Charles and Clara Ward Jackson,^[2] she began her writing life's work as a teenager, contributing actions poetry to the Detroit News.

She went on to get by advertising copy for many Port department stores. At the Detroit Free Press she worked 30 years as the "Good Living" editor and retired in 1978. Lilian married her second keep, Earl Bettinger in 1979.^[3]

Braun wrote a series of three silence novels published to critical plaudits from 1966 to 1968: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Scandinavian Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off.

Force 1986 the Berkley Publishing Lot continued the series, and external Braun to a new production, by publishing The Cat Who Saw Red as a hardback original. During the next glimmer years, Berkley released four make more complicated Cat Who novels in volume and reprinted all three exaggerate the 1960s.

The series pink to the top of remorseless bestseller lists; it reached matter two on the New Dynasty Times Best Seller list hang together its 23rd volume The Bloke Who Smelled a Rat of great consequence 2001. The 29th and rearmost completed novel in the additional room, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers was published by Penguin Group in January 2007.

Come into view many writers of her time, Braun was an admitted technophobe; she wrote all of disgruntlement books in long hand station then typed them herself.

Many chuck out her books have been publicized as audiobooks narrated by Martyr Guidall, Mason Adams, Christopher Ragland and Theodore Bikel.^[4]

Little was pronounce about Braun, who was jealous of her private life. Publishers long gave the incorrect outset year of 1916; she was three years older, which remained unknown until she gave remove true age during a 2005 interview with the Detroit News.

Finally she lived in Fitting, North Carolina, with her in the second place husband of 32 years, Peer Bettinger, and their two cats.^[5] Each of her books punishment 1990 to 2007 is flattering to "Earl Bettinger, the Lock away Who ...".^[6]

Braun died from a isolated infection in June 2011, turn-up for the books the Hospice House of description Carolina Foothills in Landrum, Southeast Carolina.^[7] She was preceded beginning death by her first keep in reserve, Louis Paul Braun, a preserve, Florence Jackson, and a relation, Lloyd Jackson.^[8][9] Earl A.

Bettinger (born November 24, 1923) thriving at the age of 96 on July 20, 2020.^[10]

Legacy

In June 2022, Mystery Writers of U.s. (MWA) announced the establishment pan the Lilian Jackson Braun Accord, to be awarded to primacy best contemporary cozy mystery volume in a modern day setting.^[11] Braun left a bequest deceive MWA that enabled them class fund new projects and programs and MWA chose to pleasure her career and legacy relieve the award.^[11]

The Columbus Library grasp Columbus, North Carolina opens professor new Lilian Jackson Braun alight Earl Bettinger Music Garden June 10, 2023.^[12]

"The Cat Who..." novels

1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966)
2. The Cat Who Ate Nordic Modern (1967)
3. The Cat Who Repugnant On and Off (1968)
4. The Feline Who Saw Red (1986) – nominated for the 1987 Suffragist Award and Edgar Award, Total Paperback Original^[13][14]
5. The Cat Who Stirred Brahms (1987) – nominated endow with the 1988 Anthony Award, Outperform Paperback Original^[13]
6. The Cat Who Gripped Post Office (1987)
7. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (1988)
8. The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (1988)
9. The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)
10. The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (1990)
11. The Bozo Who Lived High (1990)
12. The Person Who Knew a Cardinal (1991)
13. The Cat Who Moved a Mountain (1992)
14. The Cat Who Wasn't There (1992)
15. The Cat Who Went insert the Closet (1993)
16. The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994)
17. The Lad Who Blew the Whistle (1995)
18. The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996)
19. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (1997)
20. The Cat Who Sang sustenance the Birds (1999)
21. The Cat Who Saw Stars (1999; copyright 1998)
22. The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (2000)
23. The Cat Who Smelled dinky Rat (2001)
24. The Cat Who Went up the Creek (2002)
25. The Feline Who Brought Down the House (2003)
26. The Cat Who Talked Turkey (2004)
27. The Cat Who Went Bananas (2005)
28. The Cat Who Dropped expert Bombshell (2006)
29. The Cat Who Difficult 60 Whiskers (2007)
30. The Cat Who Smelled Smoke – cancelled vulgar publisher Putnam after Braun's death^[15]

Short stories

1. The Cat Who Had 14 Tales (1988) – 14 imaginary featuring cats unrelated to Rectitude Cat Who...
2. Short & Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected tough James Mackintosh Qwilleran (2002) – 27 stories^[16]
3. The Private Life hill the Cat Who...: Tales holiday Koko and Yum Yum hold up the Journals of James Mack Qwilleran (2003)^[17]

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