The Naming of Cats The Naming of Cats "The Naming of Cats" is a poem in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and its stage adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical "Cats". It describes to humans how cats get their names. The poem has also been quoted in other films, notably "Logan's Run", when Logan meets the old man outside the dome city. The poem uses a short rhythmic dialogue to describe how cats get or choose their names. It also shows how cats are also mysterious and devious, e.g., with the line "The name that no human research
The King of the Cats king of the cats from this story and Robert Irwin's "Father of Cats" from "The Arabian Nightmare" for his 1998 novel "King Rat". A 2006 biography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood was entitled "King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.". American author P. T. Cooper's 2012 middle-grade children's novel, "The King of the Cats", starts off with a retelling of the original legend but then picks up where the legend left off. The novel tells of the death of Tom Tildrum and the crowning of his successor, Jack Tigerstripes, who is