Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. The "Cheshire Cat" figures prominently in a story by whom?"
...1. Johanna Spyri 2. Lewis Carroll 3. Anna Sewell 4. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Carroll described the cat in "Alice in Wonderland". Spyri wrote "Heidi". Sewell wrote about another famous animal - a horse (in "Black Beauty"). Rawlings wrote "The Yearling". Honorable Mention goes to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (although there really isn't an actual cat).