author
R. J. Rice
A former Philadelphia police officer turned real-life storyteller, he wrote with the kind of detail that comes from seeing a city at its hardest and strangest moments up close. His books range from street-level memoir to practical cat advice, which gives his work an unexpected, down-to-earth charm.
1 Audiobook
The Miserly Robot
by R. J. Rice
About the author
R. J. Rice is known for I Do Solemnly Swear: Life as a Philadelphia Cop, published in 2005. In descriptions for that book, he is identified as a 28-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, and the book is presented as a collection of incidents drawn from the cases and assignments he handled during his career.
Available book listings also connect him with The Proper Cat: A Guide in Training Cats and Helping Them Curb Unwanted Behavior, showing a very different side of his writing. Taken together, those titles suggest an author with a practical voice who wrote from personal experience rather than from a distance.
Because reliable biographical information about his life outside the books is limited, the clearest picture comes from the work itself: a writer interested in everyday problems, whether that meant the realities of police work or the habits of a difficult housecat.