Lilian Jackson Braun

Lilian Jackson Braun was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who... mystery novels. The Cat Who books feature newspaper journalist Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats, Koko (short for Kao K'o Kung) and Yum Yum, first in an unnamed midwestern American city and then in the fictitious small town of Pickax located in Moose County "400 miles north of everywhere".

* Braun was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, in 1913.
* She began her writing career as a teenager, contributing sports poetry to the Detroit News.
* She went on to write advertising copy for many Detroit department stores.
* At the Detroit Free Press she worked 30 years as the "Good Living" editor and retired in 1978.
* Braun wrote a series of three mystery novels published to critical acclaim from 1966 to 1968: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off.
* She resumed the series in 1986 with The Cat Who Saw Red and published 27 more books in the series over the next 25 years.
* Braun's books have sold over 70 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 26 languages.
* She died in 2011 at the age of 97.