Men With Cats: Intimate Portraits of Feline Friendship

By David Williams

Celebrate man's other best friend—the cat—in this delightful gift book for pet lovers, feline fans, and anyone who appreciates cats and the dudes who love them.

Countless books and blogs have extolled the virtues of the Cat Lady—now photographer David Williams celebrates cat-owning men and the precious kitties who have stolen their hearts. His subjects represent a cross-section of American society—musicians and artists, soldiers and CEOs, truck drivers and tattoo artists—with one very furry common denominator. These fun, fuzzy, and offbeat portraits are full of personality, and the accompanying stories share everything from “how we met” to how the cats earned their names.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781594748868

David Williams

David Williams was a writer best known for his crime-novel series featuring the banker Mark Treasure and police inspector DI Parry. After serving as Naval Officer in the Second World War, Williams completed a History degree at St Johns College, Oxford before embarking on a career in advertising. He became a full-time fiction writer in 1978. Williams wrote twenty-three novels, seventeen of which were part of the Mark Treasure series of whodunnits which began with Unholy Writ (1976). His experience in both the Anglican Church and the advertising world informed and inspired his work throughout his career. Two of Williams' books were shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, and in 1988 he was elected to the Detection Club.

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Copyright © 2016 by David Williams

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Number: 2015946876

eBook ISBN: 978-1-59474-886-8

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59474-885-1

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Production management by John J. McGurk

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

You Can Tell A Lot About A Man By His Cat

About the Author

YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT A MAN BY HIS CAT

My family of seven always treated our pets as family members. My mother invariably had a pug or two. My father took long trips with our cat Spikey loose in the car. My siblings and I all have our own pets now. They’re our emotional support animals—we depend on them just as much as they depend on us. So I learned at an early age that humans form strong bonds with animals, especially the ones they take into their homes.

I started Men with Cats in 2009 while I was living in Denver, Colorado.