Famous authors and their cats.

1. Cats and Authors
no dogs allowed

2. Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has multiple cats and often chronicles
their adventures on his blog. The cats he’s had
recently include Coconut, Hermione, Pod, Zoe, and
the imitable Princess, who Gaiman describes thusly:
“I’ve grown so used to having a bad-tempered but
beautiful cat that I need to warn visitors about. She’s
outlasted all the cats I loved and all the cats I bonded
with. And I think she’s grown very used to me.”

3. Jean CocteauWith artist Tsuguharu Foujita and the award winner, at a cat show sponsored by
Cocteau’s “Cat Friends” Club of Paris
With artist Tsuguharu Foujita and the award winner, at a cat show sponsored by
Cocteau’s “Cat Friends” Club of Paris

4. Jack Kerouac
Jack also loved cats, especially his cat Tyke, whose
unfortunate passing he wrote about in loving detail in
his memoir Big Sur.
“The next sign is in Frisco itself where after a night of
perfect sleep in an old skid row hotel room I go to see
Monsanto at his City Lights bookstore and he’s
smiling and glad to see me, says ‘We were coming out
to see you next weekend you should have waited,’
but there something else in his expression — When
we’re alone he says, ‘Your mother wrote and said
your cat is dead.’

5. Jean Paul Sartre

6. “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may
hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
Ernest Hemingway

7. Margaret Atwood

8. Raymond Chandler
“Come around sometime when your
face is clean and we shall discuss the
state of the world, the foolishness of
humans, the prevalence of horsemeat,
although we prefer the tenderloin side
of a porterhouse, and our common
difficulty in getting doors opened at the
right time and meals served at more
frequent intervals. I have got my staff
up to five a day, but there is still room
for improvement.”
— Taki (Chandler’s cat)

9. William S. Burroughs

10. Mark Twain
“When a man loves cats, I am his
friend and comrade, without further
introduction.”
— Mark Twain

11. Mr. Gorey was definitely not a
dog person.
Edward Gorey