Lynne Truss is the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, which spent forty-five weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, three at #1 and was the USA Today Book of the Year in 2014; and Talk to the Hand, which was also a New York Times hardcover bestseller. She used to be a cat lover, but in light of new evidence, she has reconsidered her position.