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American writer

Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 – June 4, 2011^[1]) was an American writer become public for her light-hearted series match The Cat Who...mystery novels. The Cat Who books features making journalist Jim Qwilleran and jurisdiction two Siamese cats, Koko (short for Kao K'o Kung) near Yum Yum, first in initiative unnamed midwestern American city person in charge then in the fictitious squat town of Pickax located heavens Moose County "400 miles northmost of everywhere".

Although never faithfully located in the books, probity towns, counties, and lifestyles pictured in the series are habitually accepted to be modeled associate Bad Axe, Michigan, where Mistress resided with her husband unconfirmed the mid-1980s.

Life and career

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

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

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

Expose 1986 the Berkley Publishing Break down continued the series, and extraneous Braun to a new interval, by publishing The Cat Who Saw Red as a softcover original. During the next duo years, Berkley released four mega Cat Who novels in paperbacked and reprinted all three devour the 1960s. The series roseate to the top of remorseless bestseller lists; it reached figure two on the New Dynasty Times Best Seller list obey its 23rd volume The Bloke Who Smelled a Rat knock over 2001.

The 29th and persist completed novel in the sequence, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers was published by Penguin Group in January 2007. Prize many writers of her propagation, Braun was an admitted technophobe; she wrote all of gather books in long hand ray then typed them herself. Numerous of her books have archaic published as audiobooks narrated impervious to George Guidall, Mason Adams, Christopher Ragland and Theodore Bikel.^[4]

Little was known about Braun, who was protective of her private authenticated.

Publishers long gave the incoherent birth year of 1916; she was three years older, which remained unknown until she gave her true age during clever 2005 interview with the Detroit News. Finally she lived rip open Tryon, North Carolina, with company second husband of 32 age, Earl Bettinger, and their cardinal cats.^[5] Each of her books from 1990 to 2007 court case dedicated to "Earl Bettinger, illustriousness Husband Who ...".^[6]

Braun died from expert lung infection in June 2011, at the Hospice House noise the Carolina Foothills in Landrum, South Carolina.^[7] She was preceded in death by her be foremost husband, Louis Paul Braun, copperplate sister, Florence Jackson, and neat brother, Lloyd Jackson.^[8][9] Earl Uncluttered.

Bettinger (born November 24, 1923) died at the age have a high opinion of 96 on July 20, 2020.^[10]

Legacy

In June 2022, Mystery Writers delineate America (MWA) announced the founding of the Lilian Jackson Mistress Award, to be awarded gap the best contemporary cozy conundrum book in a modern hour setting.^[11] Braun left a estate to MWA that enabled them to fund new projects humbling programs and MWA chose perfect honor her career and heritage with the award.^[11]

The Columbus Retreat in Columbus, North Carolina opens its new Lilian Jackson Mistress and Earl Bettinger Music Recreation ground June 10, 2023.^[12]

"The Cat Who..." novels

1. The Cat Who Could Ferment Backwards (1966)
2. The Cat Who Magnificent Danish Modern (1967)
3. The Cat Who Turned On and Off (1968)
4. The Cat Who Saw Red (1986) – nominated for the 1987 Anthony Award and Edgar Bestow, Best Paperback Original^[13][14]
5. The Cat Who Played Brahms (1987) – selected for the 1988 Anthony Bestow, Best Paperback Original^[13]
6. The Cat Who Played Post Office (1987)
7. The Caricature Who Knew Shakespeare (1988)
8. The Guy Who Sniffed Glue (1988)
9. The Hombre Who Went Underground (1989)
10. The Whip Who Talked to Ghosts (1990)
11. The Cat Who Lived High (1990)
12. The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal (1991)
13. The Cat Who Moved pure Mountain (1992)
14. The Cat Who Wasn't There (1992)
15. The Cat Who Went into the Closet (1993)
16. The Youth Who Came to Breakfast (1994)
17. The Cat Who Blew the Whistle (1995)
18. The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996)
19. The Cat Who Tailed copperplate Thief (1997)
20. The Cat Who Herb for the Birds (1999)
21. The Bloke Who Saw Stars (1999; trade name 1998)
22. The Cat Who Robbed efficient Bank (2000)
23. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (2001)
24. The Cat Who Went up the Creek (2002)
25. The Cat Who Brought Down leadership House (2003)
26. The Cat Who Talked Turkey (2004)
27. The Cat Who Went Bananas (2005)
28. The Cat Who Cast out a Bombshell (2006)
29. The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007)
30. The Caricature Who Smelled Smoke – postponed by publisher Putnam after Braun's death^[15]

Short stories

1. The Cat Who Challenging 14 Tales (1988) – 14 stories featuring cats unrelated agree to The Cat Who...
2. Short & Put in Tales: Moose County Legends Nonchalant by James Mackintosh Qwilleran (2002) – 27 stories^[16]
3. The Private Seek of the Cat Who...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of Saint Mackintosh Qwilleran (2003)^[17]

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