Cleveland Amory, humorist and humanitarian, founded The Fund for Animals in 1967 and has served without pay as its president for the past thirty years.
Cleveland is a best-selling author who began his literary success as president of the Harvard Crimson. Upon graduation, he became the youngest-ever editor at The Saturday Evening Post and served in Army Intelligence in World War II. After the war, he produced a trilogy of social history studies which are still acknowledged as classics -- The Proper Bostonions (still in print after nearly 50 years), The Last Resorts, and Who Killed Society? At the same time, he served for eleven years as social commentator on The Today Show. From 1963 to 1976, Cleveland served as chief critic for TV Guide, while writing a weekly column for Saturday Review and a daily radio essay, Curmudgeon at Large.
In 1974, he wrote Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife, which was widely attributed for launching the anti-hunting movement in the United States. Man Kind? was one of only a handful of books in history to be awarded an editorial in The New York Times, and the book even sparked a CBS documentary on hunting, The Guns of Autumn.
Since 1980, Cleveland has been senior contributing editor of Parade magazine. He has written three recent best-sellers, The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, The Best Cat Ever, and now The Compleat Cat which contains all three in one volume. His latest release, Ranch of Dreams, tells the story of The Fund for Animals' Black Beauty Ranch, a sanctuary for hundreds of abused and abandoned animals.