Lilian Braun is the author of the acclaimed The Cat Who... series. Very little appears to be known about Braun, as she guards her personal privacy and prefers to keep it that way. It is reported that she was born in 1913, and as a teenager, started her literary career writing sports poetry for the Detroit News. She worked subsequent literary jobs, such as advertising copywriters for Detroit's department stores, and as the editor of Good Living for the Detroit Free Press. In 1978, after 30 years, she retired from the Detroit Free Press.
Braun published three novels between 1966 and 1968, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. The novels were received with critical acclaim. She then, for unknown reasons, disappeared from the literary scene. For the next eighteen years there were no new releases.
She came back in 1986 with The Cat Who Saw Red, and followed this up over the next two years with four more novels in for the series. With the publishing of the four new novels and the re-release of the original three, The Cat Who ... series again became a best seller. To date, the series has grown to 29 novels, with a 30th due in 2009.
Braun is an admitted technophobe and still prefers to use a typewriter over a computer. Currently, she lives in North Carolina with her husband and their cats.
