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In the 1950s, anthropologist and author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53, gained notoriety with her first book, The Harmless People, a classic account of her experience living in the Kalahari Desert with the Juwa Bushman. But Thomas is probably best known for her book The Hidden Life of Dogs. A massive best seller, its first printing was in August ’93 for 13,000 copies. Within a week Houghton Mifflin had orders for 10,000 more, and it spent nearly 10 months on the New York Times bestseller list. Today there are more than a million copies in print. Among her other works, which include both nonfiction and fiction, are The Social Life of Dogs, The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture, Certain Poor Shepherds: A Christmas Tale, Reindeer Moon, and The Animal Wife. Her latest book is The Old Way: A Story of the First People.
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