With characteristic wit, self–effacing charm and sheer, exuberant love of a good cat story, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda and his wife Margaret Korda recount their lives as "cat people," beginning with Margaret's passion for cats (and Michael's reluctant mid–life transformation into a cat person), and introducing readers to a hilarious assortment of people whose life revolves––often to an extraordinary degree––around their cat, or cats, from Cleopatra a transatlantic traveler who found happiness in Paris to Wally, the epitome of feline dignity. Here are people who just can't say no to another cat, who "world–travel" with their cat, who build their social life around their cats––and of course the cats themselves, for the Kordas celebrate the beguiling power of cats, including many of their own, who have complemented, complicated and changed their lives together over the years. Here are charming, often hilarious and sometimes sad portraits of such cats as Margaret's beloved Irving, whose favorite abode was the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and Mumsie, who arrived unexpectedly at the door with her two kittens, and special cats like Jake and the gentle Chutney, as well as "difficult" cats like Chui and poor Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. McT., the bully who found love late in life. Here are graceful cats and cats like Kit–Kat that never look before they jump, in short, countless cats the reader will never forget, even those with many cats of their own.

麥可．柯達（Michael Korda）

目前擔任國際出版集團『賽門與舒斯特』總編輯，從基層編輯做起，投身出版事業近五十年。躋身紐約時報暢銷作歷久不衰，著作本本暢銷，如《權力》《多采多姿》《因緣際會》《打造暢銷書》，小說《昆妮》（改編成電視劇『歷盡滄桑一美人』）更是紅極一時。與瑪格麗特合著《如何在家養馬》是難得一見兼具文采與實用的工具書。

瑪格麗特．柯達（Margaret Korda）

生於英國，目前與麥可定居紐約。從小就愛貓、與貓為伍，是位資深貓人，麥可受其影響慢慢轉變為十足的貓人。

譯者介紹

周佩蓉

台灣台北人，輔仁大學英國語文學系畢業，曾任英語學習叢書編輯，目前定居美國。