Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is a literary icon, groundbreaking social activist, and working farmer. She is the bestselling author of such notable books as Rita Will and Rubyfruit Jungle, as well as the New York Times bestselling Sister Jane and Mrs. Murphy mystery series (co-written with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie Brown). An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Virginia. In October, Ballantine Books will publish Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small, a memoir in which she discusses in depth for the first time her life-sustaining relationships with animals and the important life lessons she’s learned from them throughout the years.