May 3, 1926

Eliška Plevová (May 3, 1926 to August 31,1987) was Czechoslovakian. Her father Karel Pleva, managed a wood factory in Moravia. Not sure what a wood factory is, but it seems not to be a forest. She was thirty when she married Bohumil Hrabal (March 28, 1914 to February 3, 1997).  He is called the greatest Czech writer of the last century. A story he wrote was the basis for the movie, Closely Watched Trains.

Her husband was very fond of cats, had a lot, and so it may have been a relief when they obtained a country cottage. This was a good place to have the cats. Her husband lived roughly ten more years after his wife's death. No one is certain if he meant to kill himself, or was trying to feed pigeons when he fell from a height, and died. His collected works amounted to 19 volumes. This picture shows us the writer and his cats at his country home.