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Cleveland Amory

Born

in The United States

September 02, 1917

Died

October 14, 1998

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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Cleveland Amory was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. He was perhaps best known for his books about his cat, named Polar Bear, whom he saved from the Manhattan streets on Christmas Eve 1977. The executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as „the founding father of the modern animal protection movement.“

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	The Cat Who Came for Christmas (Compleat Cat #1) by Cleveland Amory, Edith Allard (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 4,913 ratings — published 1988 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cat and the Curmudgeon 3.71 avg rating — 789 ratings — published 1990 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Cat Ever 3.81 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compleat Cat 4.12 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ranch of Dreams: The Country's Most Unusual Sanctuary, Where Every Animal Has a Story 3.89 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Proper Bostonians 3.96 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1947 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Killed Society? 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Resorts 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1952 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanity Fair: Selections From America's Most Memorable Magazine: A Cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s by Cleveland Amory (Editor), Frederic Bradlee (Editor), Katharine Tweed (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1960 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”
― Cleveland Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

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“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”
― Cleveland Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

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“One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.”
― Cleveland Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

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