Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood

A Man Booker Prize-nominated "Swiftian satire" in the form of a celebrity chimp's tell-all memoir: "the prose is impeccable . . . intelligent, penetrating" (The Guardian, UK).

Cheeta the Chimp was just a baby in 1932 when he was snatched from the jungle of Liberia by the great animal importer Henry Trefflich. That same year, Cheeta appeared in Tarzan the Ape Man, and in 1934 in Tarzan and His Mate, in which he famously stole clothes from a naked Maureen O'Sullivan. Other Tarzan films follow...