Ellen Cooney is a fiction writer who lives in midcoast Maine. She is the author of nine novels; her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and many literary journals.Cooney's new novel is The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances.
One of the author's top ten canine-human literary duos, as shared at the Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and FlushRead about another entry on the list.
It's easy to imagine the raised Bloomsbury-group eyebrows at the news Virginia Woolf was writing a biography of the red cocker spaniel who might indeed have been closer in many ways to hishuman than her husband was. And, with illustrations and gripping adventures that counteract all the hours Miss Barrett was stuck in bed because Robert Browning hadn't yet turned up! What happened -- no surprise -- was that Virginia Woolf set the gold standard for prose not only about the inner and outer life of a dog, but the inner and outer life of that thing we call bonding, sometimes without really understanding how it works and grows and grows.
Read--Coffee with a Canine: Ellen Cooney & Andy, Skip, and Maxine.
My Book, The Movie: The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances.
The Page 69 Test: The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances.
--Marshal Zeringue
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