Lilian Jackson Braun is a mystery writer and journalist
She was born in Michigan in 1916 Braun was a journalist and served as the Good Living editor of The Detroit Free Press for nearly 30 years. In the 1960s, Braun wrote three novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. After a 20-year break, Braun published The Cat Who Saw Red, and within two years she had published four new novels. George Guidall George Guidall is one of the most prolific narrator of audiobooks in the world. He has recorded nearly 650 unabridged novels, everything from Crime and Punishment and The Iliad to Snow Falling on Cedars. He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway and touring Europe with Helen Hayes in the Glass Menagerie, Miracle Worker and The Skin of Our Teeth. He received an Obie Award for Best Performance Off-Broadway, and has continued his performances in theater for over 40 years. Guidall has also appeared on television, with roles on the soap One Life to Live and Law and Order, and in movies such as Malcolm X and Tales from the Darkside. His first job reading audiobooks was for the Library of Congress' American Foundation for the Blinds' Talking Books. Since then he has won the most prestigious Audiobook Award, the Audie Award, for Best Unabridged Narration of a novel for his recording of John Irving's A Widow for One Year. He won the Audie again in 2000 for Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True.
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