The Kzinti are an alien cat-like species developed by Larry Niven in his Known Space series.
Kzinti on the cover of Man-Kzin Wars III.
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
Niven in 2010
Niven at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, 2007
Niven at Stanford University in 2006
Ringworld