The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

April 20, 2012

April 20, 1953

Sebastian Faulks (April 20, 1953) had a career as a journalist for 14 years before he took up writing novels full time. That was in 1991, after the success of 1988's The girl at the Lion d'or. Here we meet a mysterious woman

[who] sat gazing out... on the sun-struck cobbles ...[at a] ...cat [who] had no name as far as she knew and was not owned by anyone nearby. Its face was gouged and partly bare from a life [on the street.]

Faulks lives with his family in London, and is a prominent member of the British literary scene.
Every novel of Faulk's has a sensitive cat description, except for that best-selling followup to Fleming's James Bond, Devil May Care (2008.)
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