莎拉•格鲁恩（Sara Gruen）：狂热的动物爱好者，写了一系列与动物有关的小说，其中第三本书《大象的眼泪》是超越《追风筝的人》和《哈里•波特7》的超级畅销书。

本书中聪明可人的黑猩猩也有着现实中的原型。

现与丈夫、三个孩子、四只猫、两头羊、两条狗、一匹马同住在芝加哥北部的生态小区。

After the extraordinary success of "Water for Elephants, " with 3 million copies shipped, Sara Gruen returns with another immensely charming, endlessly surprising, and engaging novel in which a family of apes teaches us what it means to be human. Sara Gruen's "Water for Elephants" has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Now Gruen has moved from a circus elephant to family of bonobo apes. When the apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA. A devoted animal lover, Gruen has had a life-long fascination with human-ape discourse, and a particular interest in Bonobo apes, who share 99.4% of our DNA. She has studied linguistics and a system of lexigrams in order to communicate with apes, and is one of the few visitors who has been allowed access to the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, where the apes have come to love her. In bringing her experience and research to bear on this novel, she opens the animal world to us as few novelists have done. "Ape House" is a riveting, funny, compassionate, and, finally, deeply moving new novel that secures Sara Gruen's place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before.