The book alleges a trophy hunter's team baited Cecil with an elephant carcass. — -- Cecil the Lion was allegedly baited with an elephant carcass, drawing him out of a protected national park ...

and used his experience to write the best-selling book "Paper Lion," published in 1966. The book was adapted into a movie of ...

Paper Lion was the most famous of several books he wrote chronicling Walter Mitty-like experiences in sports and other endeavors. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and NPR's Frank Deford.

Don’t let the fanged narrator of Henry Hoke’s new novel scare you off. Yes, “Open Throat” is about a queer mountain lion, but only in the way “The Metamorphosis” is about a large bug.

His book follows heckit, a queer mountain lion that lives in L.A. and reflects upon the humans of the city. “I try to understand people but they make it hard,” the cat laments early in the book.

Maaza Mengiste’s first novel, “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” opens in 1974 during the last days of Selassie’s six-decade rule. A young man lies on an operating table with a bullet in his back.

The morning after your 15-2 team suffered a seemingly inconceivable — and utterly devastating — playoff loss, my 9-year-old son, Ollie, who loves you guys even more than I do, came bounding ...