Barbara E MossBarbara Edinger Moss studied Spanish, German, and Russian and professionally translated Russian scientific journals into English. She holds a degree in zoology from St. Lawrence University and attended graduate school at Cornell. She worked as a reserch assistant at the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University before moving to Massachusetts and raising three children. She has had a lifelong love of animals, especially cats. She is the author of two other books, Mo, Cat of My Heart and Working Cats of Southern New England. In 2006, she was a prizewinner in the Amazing Cat Tales contest. The author lives in Westport, MA, with her husband and their cat Dexter. Read More Read Less