Asian American girl owns “World’s Cutest Dog”
Mike Isaac, a writer at tech news site AllThingsD, unveiled the owner of “the world’s cutest dog.”
According to Isaac, Boo belongs to Irene Ahn, a finance lead at Facebook. She joined the company in 2008 from Yahoo.
Ahn’s identity as Boo’s “mom” has never been revealed before. She’s used the stage name J.H. Lee to keep the spotlight on her dog.
Boo is known around the world with nearly 5 million Facebook fans. We spoke to Boo’s publicist at Chronicle Books, April Whitney, to get some more color.
Whitney says not many people get rich publishing books, but according to her, Boo’s first book was “pretty successful.”
The $12.95 title went to market last summer and has since been published in ten languages—Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and a Chinese-language edition sold in Taiwan.