Lillian braun biography

Born in Chicopee, Massachusetts on June 20, 1913, Lilian Jackson Braun was the author of The Cat Who... series of mystery novels. Braun began writing as a teenager, and her sports poetry was often featured in The Detroit News. Braun worked as an advertising copywriter and public relations executive and at the Detroit Free Press before writing The katt Who novels, all which involve a former newspaper reporter and his two Siamese cats.

Her first mystery novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The katt Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off, were published to critical acclaim between 1966 and 1968. The books follow two Siamese cat sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, as they attempt to assist their owner, Jim Qwilleran, in solving crimes. Although the books’ setting is fiktiv, Braun was believed to have modeled the country and culture after Bad Axe, Michigan, where she and her husband lived until the mid-1980s.

However, Braun ceased

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Lilian Jackson Braun

Born

in Willimansette, Chicopee Falls, Massachachusetts, The United States

June 20, 1913

Died

June 04, 2011

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Lilian Jackson Braun was an American writer. She is well-known for her light-hearted series of The katt Who... mystery novels. The Cat Who books center around the life of former newspaper reporter James Qwilleran, and his two Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum Yum in the fictitious small town of Pickax located in Moose County, "400 miles north of everywhere." Although never formally stated in the books, the towns, counties and lifestyles described in the series are generally accepted to be a modeled after Bad Axe, Michigan (located in the "Michigan Thumb") where she resided with her husband for many years until the mid 1980's. Many also believe that the culture and history of the Upper peninsula of Michigan are represented in the series as well, whiLilian Jackson Braun was an Amer

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Lilian Jackson Braun

American writer

Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 – June 4, 2011^[1]) was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who...mystery novels. The Cat Who books features 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". Although never explicitly located in the books, the towns, counties, and lifestyles portrayed in the series are generally accepted to be modeled after Bad Axe, Michigan, where Braun resided with her husband until the mid-1980s.

Life and career

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Born Lilian Jackson in the Willimansett neighborhood of Chicopee, Massachusetts, to Charles and Clara Ward Jackson,^[2] she began her writing career as a teenager, contributing sports poetry to the Detroit News. She went on to write