Authors and Illustrators Database

Lillian Jackson Braun

Born: 06/20/1913  Williamsett
Died: 06/04/2011
Parents: Charles and Clara Ward Jackson
Spouse: Louis Paul Braun (1st); Earl Bettinger(2nd)
Address(es):
Permanent:
Last known address:
Tryon, NC

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Cat Who... Series
- Multiple titles. 		Humor, Mystery Adult New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1966-2007
What is the aim or goal of your writing: She wrote a poem at age two, in a snowstorm: "Mother Goose is up in the sky/and these are her feathers coming down in my eye." Her drive is neither money nor fame. She avoids interviews and lives quietly, writing every day.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Writer of classic mysteries about two cats Koko and Yum Yum
Advertising copywriter Crowley's and Kern's and other Detroit area department stores Detroit
"Good Living" Editor (for 30 years) The Detroit Free Press Detroit

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aBraun%2C+Lilian+Jackson/abraun+lilian+jackson/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=abraun+lilian+jackson&1%2C482%2C

Other Comments:

Never formally stated in her books, the towns, counties and lifestyles described in the series are generally accepted to be modeled after Bad Axe, Michigan, where Braun resided with her husband until the mid-1980s. Contents [hide]

Last Modified On: 3/6/2014 12:00:00 AM