Cat Warren is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
What the Dog Knows:
Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways
Dogs Perceive the World,
and a Young Readers Edition of
What the Dog Knows.
About Cat Warren
Cat Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World.
The book tells the story of learning to work with her impossible young shepherd as a cadaver dog to find the missing and dead. It won critical acclaim and was long listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
The Young Readers Edition of What the Dog Knows was published in October 2019.
Cat grew up in the country in Oregon, worked as a newspaper journalist for many years across the United States. She taught science writing, journalism, and creative nonfiction at North Carolina State University for 26 years before retiring in 2021.
She lives with her husband and their two dogs, a large German shepherd and a smaller Boykin spaniel, in Durham, North Carolina.
