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Lilian Jackson Braun was born on June 20, 1913. After starting out as a copywriter for Detroit department stores, she worked for The Detroit Free Press for nearly 30 years. In the 1960s, her cat died in a fall from a 10th-floor window in Detroit. Neighbors later told her that someone pushed the cat. To work through her feelings, she wrote a short story based on the incident. The result was her first three novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. After an 18-year break, she published The Cat Who Saw Red. During her lifetime, she wrote 29 titles in The Cat Who... series. She died on June 4, 2011 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Cat Who Could Read Backwards… (more)
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards 2,198 copies, 59 reviews
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern 1,620 copies, 33 reviews
The Cat Who Said Cheese 1,513 copies, 8 reviews
The Cat Who Blew the Whistle 1,506 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Wasn't There 1,492 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Saw Red 1,491 copies, 20 reviews
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief 1,487 copies, 7 reviews
The Cat Who Saw Stars 1,465 copies, 16 reviews
The Cat Who Went into the Closet 1,464 copies, 12 reviews
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast 1,462 copies, 11 reviews
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts 1,447 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Turned On and Off 1,438 copies, 22 reviews
The Cat Who Robbed a Bank 1,436 copies, 12 reviews
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare 1,434 copies, 15 reviews
The Cat Who Moved a Mountain 1,432 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Played Post Office 1,411 copies, 18 reviews
The Cat Who Went Up the Creek 1,409 copies, 12 reviews
The Cat Who Played Brahms 1,401 copies, 19 reviews
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat 1,398 copies, 11 reviews
The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal 1,381 copies, 21 reviews
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds 1,376 copies, 10 reviews
The Cat Who Lived High 1,371 copies, 16 reviews
The Cat Who Sniffed Glue 1,332 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Went Underground 1,316 copies, 14 reviews
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell 1,285 copies, 26 reviews
The Cat Who Brought Down the House 1,285 copies, 10 reviews
The Cat Who Talked Turkey 1,253 copies, 13 reviews
The Cat Who Went Bananas 1,204 copies, 24 reviews
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers 1,109 copies, 36 reviews
The Cat Who Had 14 Tales 878 copies, 12 reviews
The Private Life of the Cat Who... 475 copies, 11 reviews
The Cat Who... Books 4-6 242 copies, 1 review
The Cat Who ... Mystery Series 11 copies, 1 review
Cats For Dummies (Foreword, some editions) 276 copies, 2 reviews
The Cat Who... Cookbook (Foreword, some editions) 146 copies, 1 review
Mystery Cats: Feline Felonies (Contributor) 128 copies, 2 reviews
Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives (Contributor) 107 copies, 1 review
The Best of Sisters in Crime (Contributor) 90 copies, 2 reviews
Sisters in Crime 3 (Contributor) 79 copies, 1 review
Magicats II! (Contributor) 74 copies
More Mystery Cats: Feline Felonies (Contributor) 72 copies, 1 review
Mysterious Cat Stories (Contributor) 58 copies
The Cat Who... Quizbook (Introduction) 52 copies
Detective Duos (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Mystery Cats 3: More Feline Felonies (Contributor) 45 copies
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Short biography
She is something of a technophobe and still uses a typewriter.

The history of Lilian Jackson Braun is perhaps as exciting and mysterious as her novels. Between 1966 and 1968, she published three novels to critical acclaim; The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. In 1966, The New York Times labeled Braun, "the new detective of the year." Then, for reasons unknown, the rising mystery author disappeared from the publishing scene.

It wasn't until 1986 that the Berkley Publishing Group reintroduced Braun to the public with the publication of an original paperback, The Cat Who Saw Red. Within two years, Berkley released four new novels in paperback and reprinted the three mysteries from the sixties.
Braun was the "Good Living" editor of The Detroit Free Press for 29 years. She is retired from journalism and is currently writing mysteries full-time. She lives with two Siamese cats and her husband, Earl Bettinger, in North Carolina.
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