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.

January 1, 2019

January 1

A totally unscientific and surprising, to me, calculation is that there are more cat writers, or cat alluders, anyway, born on a January 1st than any other day of the year. I marshall my resources:

Joe Orton
Baishi
Mary Beard
William Wycherley
Kuniyoshi
Hap Kliban
Sam Rakover

Or close to.

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