Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (born 1931) is an American anthropologist and author.
Amongst other works and novels, she wrote The Harmless People, Warrior Herdsmen, The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Social Life of Dogs, The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture, Certain Poor Shepherds : a Christmas Tale, The Old Way: A Story of the First People, Reindeer Moon and The Animal Wife.
The Hidden Life of Dogs was a stealth bestseller. The first printing, in August 1993, was 13,000 copies. Within a week Houghton Mifflin had orders for 10,000 more. It spent nearly 10 months on the New York Times bestseller list. There are more than a million copies in print, and literary agents and publishers are still being flooded with manuscripts advertised as "the next 'Hidden Life of Dogs.'"
