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Apr 29, 2013 · Hemingway and cat (Image: JFK Library) Ernest Hemingway, despite his manly bravado, had a soft spot for cats. By 1945, he had amassed 23 of them. His niece writes in the foreword to Hemingway’s Cats: An Illustrated Biography that the author and his fourth wife, Mary, called the cats “purr factories” and “love sponges.
Nov 8, 2019 · Famous Writers and Their Pets. In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys Alex Johnson’s new compendium of writers’ loyal furry and feathered friends. When Percy Shelley visited Byron in Ravenna, he found the Don Juan author at home with ‘ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle ...
Apr 9, 2021 · Animals have inspired writers since the beginning of the written word, and literary history is full of lore about authors’ profound relationships with their pets. Some were so enamored of their ...
- Grip, Charles Dicken's Raven
- Bambino, Mark Twain's Cat
- Flannery O'Connor's Peacocks
- Pumpkin, Kurt Vonnegut's Dog
- Pinka, Virginia Woolf's Cocker Spaniel
- Snow White, Ernest Hemingway's Six-Toed Kitten
- Lord Byron's Bear
- Basket, Gertrude Stein's Poodle
- Alice Walker's Chickens
- Toby and Charley, John Steinbeck's Dogs
Charles Dickens was an animal person. He kept cats, dogs, a canary, a pony, an eagle, and several successive ravens named Grip. The first Grip learned to mimic speech, and Dickens lovingly recorded the bird's vocabulary. He loved Grip so much, in fact, that when the bird died he had him stuffed, as well as writing him into the novel Barnaby Rudge. ...
Mark Twain adored his cat, Bambino. When Bambino got lost one day, Twain took out an ad in the New York American, offering $5 for his safe return with the description: "Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light." Luckily, Bambino turned up in a neighbor's yar...
Author and essayist Flannery O'Connor collected peacocks. On her farm in Georgia she raised over a hundred peafowl, who were featured in a few of her essays as the "Kings of the Birds." In addition to peacocks, she kept ducks, emus, ostrich, and possibly even toucans.
Pumpkin was Kurt Vonnegut's yappy, shaggy little dog and near-constant companion. Vonnegut himself once said: "I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs."
Virginia Woolf loved cocker spaniels, and her beloved dog Pinka was often by her side. She also wrote Flush: A Biography, a half-fictional account of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, which was named "Flush" for some unknowable reason.
For all his macho nonsense, Ernest Hemingway was 100% a stereotypical old cat lady. He started off with one six-toed kitten named Snow White, an adorable gift from a sea captain. Soon after, he began to adopt more cats, leading to more and more six-toed kittens. If you visit his home-turned-museum in Key West, Florida today, you can still find fort...
Eccentric poet Lord Byron loved his pets, but he loved being petty even more. In the early 1800s, he tried to bring his dog with him to study at Trinity College, but was told that dogs weren't allowed on campus. So he brought a bear instead.As he wrote to a friend in 1807: “I have got a new friend, the finest in the world, a tame bear. When I broug...
Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas had an affinity for white poodles,who were always named Basket. The current Basket would be bathed in sulfur water each day, and then Stein would make her guests run the dog in circles in the yard until he was dry.
Not only does Alice Walker keep pet chickens, she wrote a whole book about her relationship with her chickens. And boy does she love her chickens. She spends page after page detailing their daily lives and refering to herself as their "Mommy" (and when you've written The Color Purple, you can write a whole book about your irrational love for your p...
You probably know that John Steinbeck loved his poodle Charley, because Travels with Charley is all about him and Charley going on a road trip. But his setter Toby deserves a special shout out too, because Toby ate the first draft of Of Mice and Men, meaning that Steinbeck had to start over from scratch:"Minor tragedy stalked. I don’t know whether ...
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Nov 10, 2020 · The American writer Mary Gaitskill, author of the short story on which the 2002 film Secretary was based, adopted a tiny one-eyed cat in Italy, which she called Gattino. The loss of Gattino affected Gaitskill’s view of love – feline and human –profoundly. Human love she thought was "grossly flawed", often serving as a means of ...
Aug 25, 2018 · Here is a list of famous authors who loved their cats: Aldous Huxley. Huxley was an English writer, best known for his dystopian novel, Brave New World. ‘If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.’. Alexandre Dumas.
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Sep 13, 2018 · The writer currently dotes on the many grand-cats in her family. Stephen King. The feline protagonists in Stephen King's novels lead haunted lives. In Pet Sematary, King tells a story of loss ...
