Writer Ken Foster, Dogging It

Fresh Air

Published February 23, 2007 at 11:00 AM EST

Ken Foster's memoir The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind is about to come out in paperback. He also contributed to and edited the collection Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines. (This interview was first broadcast April 6, 2006.)

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