About Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was born in December 5, 1869 in iowa, USA and died in September 13, 1937. He was an American author, humorist and . Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, Ellis Parker Butler is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically. His work appeared along side that of his contemporaries including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite the enormous volume of his work Ellis Parker Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Author's League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene.Browse all poems and texts published on Ellis Parker Butler
