Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats director of the publishing company Faber and Faber. Morley's daughter, Susanna Smithson, uncovered the poem as part of the BBC Two programme "Arena: T.S. Eliot", broadcast that night as part of the BBC Poetry Season. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It is the basis for the musical "Cats". Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s, and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his godchildren. They were collected
What Happened (Clinton book) Winspear, Donna Leon, and Caroline and Charles Todd. They also included the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante, the spiritual works of Henri Nouwen, and the collected poems of Maya Angelou, Marge Piercy and T. S. Eliot. The hardcover edition was published on September 12, 2017; it immediately went to the top of the Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and the "USA Today" bestseller lists.<ref name="usaToday9/20/17"></ref> It debuted at number one on "The New York Times" Best Seller List for both hardcover nonfiction and combined print and e-book nonfiction sales where it stayed for 2 weeks.<ref name="NYT10/01/17"></ref><ref name="NYT10/08/17"></ref> It dropped to number