CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning at the age of 50, the beloved veterinarian James Alfred Wight led a double life. By day, he tended to animals in and around the English village where he lived, and in the evenings, writing under the pen name James Herriot, he chronicled his experiences, both past and present.

Detailed explanation-2: -His humorous fictionalized reminiscences were published under the name James Herriot in If Only They Could Talk (1970) and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet (1972), which were issued in the United States as All Creatures Great and Small (1972).

Detailed explanation-3: -James Herriot was the pen name chosen by James Alfred “Alf” Wight, a rural veterinarian whose semi-autobiographical stories about caring for animals in the Yorkshire Dales have been enjoyed by generations.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with If Only They Could Talk, first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60 million copies.

Detailed explanation-5: -James Herriot was a pen name chosen by British veterinarian, James Alfred Wight. The pseudonym made sense as the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons frowned on members who advertised.