America is cat crazy and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal Missouri to his last years in Connecticut Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats and they stalk through many of his bestknown books including The Innocents Aboard Roughing It The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurampampamprsquos Court and Puddnampampamprsquohead Wilson. In this lighthearted book Twain scholar Mark Dawidziak explores the writerampampamprsquos lifelong devotion to cats through stories excerpts quotes photos and illustrations illuminating a littleknown side of this famous writerampampamprsquos life that will appeal to Twain aficionados and cat lovers alike.