Butler, Ellis Parker

Ellis Parker Butler (1869 -1937) was the author of more than 30 books and 2,000 stories and essays. His most famous short story was "Pigs Is Pigs," about a stationmaster levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that start proliferating. His stories, poems, and articles have published in more than 225 magazines. His work has appeared alongside Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Butler worked as a banker. Although only a part-time writer, Butler was influential in the New York literary scene. He was a founding member of the...