Lee Charles Kelley is an American novelist and dog trainer living in Manhattan.
Kelley is the author of six detective novels featuring Jack Field, an NYPD homicide cop who loves dogs and hates people, so he takes early retirement, moves to Maine, and buys a boarding and training kennel, hoping to get away from crimesolving.
However, he falls in love with a part-time medical examiner, Dr. Jamie Cutter, and gets drawn back into detective work.
His critiques of the alpha theory and operant conditioning have made him a somewhat controversial figure in the dog world, which eventually led to an invitation from the editors of Psychology Today[1] to write a blog on canine training and behavior for their website.
The blog was titled "My Puppy, My Self" and ran from April, 2009 to February 2013, garnering nearly half-a-million views.