Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869–September 13, 1937) was an American author. December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and 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, which soon start proliferating geometrically. Muscatine is a city located in Muscatine County, Iowa. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Pigs is Pigs is a noted story written by Ellis Parker Butler. ...

Working from his home in Flushing (Queens) New York, Butler was—by every measure and by many times—the most published author of the pulp fiction era. A few landmarks from two New York Worlds Fairs still stand in Flushing Meadows. ... Queens Borough in New York City, in yellow Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Flynns Detective Fiction from 1941. ...

His career spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside 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. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer. ... Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ... Don Marquis (July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937) was a writer, poet, and artist; best known for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel. Archy was a cockroach who left poems on Marquiss typewriter by jumping on the keys, and Mehitabel was both a cat and a friend of Archy. ... Will Rogers. ... Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ...

Despite the enormous volume of his work, 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.

He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts and was interred in Flushing Cemetery. Flushing Cemetery is a cemetery in Flushing in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. ...

External links

• A searchable Ellis Parker Butler bibliography and the texts of hundreds of pieces of his writing, as well as many of the original illustrations and pulp magazine covers.
• Works by Ellis Parker Butler at Project Gutenberg
• Ellis Parker Butler at the Internet Movie Database
• Free audiobook of Pigs is Pigs from LibriVox
• Many Ellis Parker Butler stories, including Pigs is Pigs and most of the Perkins of Portland tales are read in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast