October 10, 2011 - Author and Photographer Jon Katz
Jon Katz' wonderful blog, bedlamfarm.com, is a daily account of his life as an author, children's book writer, photographer, human being, and life on a farm with four dogs, two donkeys, some sheep, two barn cats, and his wife, the artist! Today on Welcome to Blissville, he shares his new book, Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die - and his love of life.
New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz writes about dogs, farm animals and rural life. “I had dogs for much of my life,” he says of his writing career, “but until a troubled border collie landed in my life in New Jersey in 2001, I never gave them much thought. Since then, much of my life has changed, and radically.” In fact, Katz has, since that time, written ten books about dogs, farm animals and rural life, becoming one of the country’s most respected and quoted writers about dogs and companion animals. Before becoming an author and critic in the late 1980’s, he worked at a number of media institutions—serving as a reporter and/or editor at the Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Dallas Times-Herald. 
In addition, Katz was the executive producer of the CBS Morning News. Katz has written seven works of fiction and 13 works of non-fiction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, Wired, The Bark, Family Dog Magazine, New York Magazine, and the AKC Gazette. He wrote about dogs and rural life for the online magazine Slate.com and was a co-host of Northeast Public Radio’s monthly broadcast “Dog Talk.” His books on dogs include A Dog Year, The New Work of Dogs, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, Katz on Dogs, A Good Dog, Dog Days, Izzy & Lenore, Soul of a Dog and the novel Rose in a Storm. He also released this year Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm, the first of three Bedlam Farm children’s pictures books. HBO’s film adaptation of A Dog Year, staring Jeff Bridges (playing Katz), aired in September 2009.
Katz is also a photographer, whose work has appeared in his books, in numerous shows and galleries, and daily on his website, Bedlamfarm.com, on track to receive six million visits this year. “I love photography, it has changed the way I look at the world,” he says.
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