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Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913June 4, 2011) was an American writer, well known for her light-hearted series of "The Cat Who..." mystery novels. The "Cat Who" books center on 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 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. ==Life and career== Born Lilian Jackson in Willimansett, Chicopee, Massachusetts, to Charles Jackson and Clara Ward Jackson,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lilian J. Braun, 97 )〕 she began her writing career as a teenager, contributing sports poetry for the ''Detroit News''. She went on to write advertising copy for many of Detroit's department stores. For the ''Detroit Free Press'' she worked as the "Good Living" editor for 30 years, retiring from that post in 1978. Between 1966 and 1968, she published three novels to critical acclaim: ''The Cat Who Could Read Backwards'', ''The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern'' and ''The Cat Who Turned On and Off''. In 1966, the ''New York Times'' labeled Braun "the new detective of the year." The rising mystery writer then disappeared from the publishing scene for 18 years. In 1986, the Berkley Publishing Group reintroduced her work to a new generation of fans with the publication of an original paperback, ''The Cat Who Saw Red''. Within two years, Berkley released four new novels in paperback and reprinted her first three from the sixties. Braun's series again rose to the top of best seller lists. The twenty-ninth novel in her series, ''The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers'' was released in hardcover by the Penguin Group in January 2007. Like many writers of her generation, Braun was an admitted technophobe; she wrote all of her books in long hand and then typed them herself. Little was known about Braun, who was protective of her private life. Publishers long gave an incorrect year for her birth date, which remained unknown until she finally gave her true age during a 2005 interview with the ''Detroit News''. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Louis Paul Braun, a sister, Florence Jackson, and a brother, Lloyd Jackson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lilian Braun Obituary - Petty Funeral Home )〕 She resided in Tryon, North Carolina, with her (second) husband of 32 years, Earl Bettinger, and their two cats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Author of 'The Cat Who' series dies at 97 in SC - Washington Times )〕 Each of her books is dedicated to "Earl Bettinger the husband who..." Braun died at the Hospice House of the Carolina Foothills, in Landrum, South Carolina from a lung infection. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lilian Jackson Braun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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