“For lovers of Paris or anyone who has ever loved a dog.”

     Kay Pfaltz grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received a B.A. from the University of Virginia then moved to Manhattan and worked for Chemical Bank. Deciding the corporate scene wasn’t for her, she moved to Paris where she would live and work off and on for the next fourteen years. She studied English literature at King’s College, University of London, earning her M.A. and Ph.D., and taught for James Madison and Southern Methodist Universities in Paris, while doing free lance writing. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
      In addition to writing, today Kay runs a small restaurant/wine and cheese shop (www.basicnecessities.us). The restaurant specializes in wines from the south of France. Photographs of Lauren adorn the walls. And every now and then, Flash and Chance and Sasha can be found tidying up bread crumbs from the restaurant’s floor. Lauren’s chair still sits in the front of the restaurant at a small Italian marble table, where Lauren sat every day until she died in May of 2002.
      Kay leads wine tasting tours in France (for more information go to the Special Events page of www.basicnecessities.us). She teaches for Mary Baldwin College and volunteers with local animal shelter, Almost Home, in Lovingston, Virginia. Kay writes a monthly wine column for Nelson County Life; she reviews books for the The News Virginian. She is a contributor to Echo and a contributing editor for La Joie. She lives in Roseland, Virginia with Flash, a miniature Dachshund and Chance and Sasha, two beagles from the shelter.

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“Lauren’s Story is a tribute to life, and an invitation to cherish
every moment of it…. It is also an essay on happiness, both human
and canine.”

                        --Susan Linden, Bark, the modern dog culture magazine

“Lauren’s Story is without contest my all-time favorite book about a love-affair with a nonhuman being. Lauren’s Story is the most heart-stopping beautiful, seamlessly written, cheerful, inspiring, mesmerizing, wise and funny book I’ve ever read about what animals can teach us about life, love, courage, peace, passion, and devotion. And Lauren’s legacy is proof that many of our most effective therapists, nurses, spiritual teachers, work-out coaches, dinner-dates, clowns, and angels have four legs instead of two! Read it and fall in love!”

---Amelia Kinkade, animal communicator
and author www.ameliakinkade.com