Famous Author's Pets

[Catherine]

It seems that many famous authors had pets. These pets were a part of their lives and no doubt a part of their writings. In the case of Stienbeck's  dog, part of rewriting when his dog ate the first copy of Mice and Men.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

I can think of some books I studied in school that I wish had been eaten by the author's pets.
It is interesting to see how pets have been important to so many lives.
Somehow I wouldn't have connected the particular pet to the individual author.  Although it makes sense that Mark Twain had a cat. He would be a cat person. Charles Dickens having a Raven is unexpected. His meeting with Edger Allan Poe takes on a different light. Now we know where the Raven comes from.