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Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. 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 exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. (From Wikipedia) More about Ellis Parker Butler:
Associated authors:
- Widney, G. C. (Gustavus C.), 1871-1955
- Preston, May Wilson, 1873-1949
- Cory, Fanny Y.
- Steele, Frederic Dorr, 1873-1944
- Phelan, A. B.
- Irvin, Rea, 1881-1972
| | Books by Ellis Parker Butler: Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Adventures of a Suburbanite (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), illust. by A. B. Phelan (multiple formats at archive.org) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937, contrib.: The Best Ghost Stories (New York: Modern Library, c1919), ed. by Joseph Lewis French, also contrib. by Arthur B. Reeve, Daniel Defoe, M. R. James, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leopold Kompert, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Rudyard Kipling, Brander Matthews, Ambrose Bierce, and Vincent O'Sullivan (Gutenberg text) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Cheerful Smugglers (New York: The Century Co., 1908), illust. by May Wilson Preston Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Confessions of a Daddy (New York: The Century Co., 1907), illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Goat-Feathers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1919) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Great American Pie Company (1907), illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: How it Feels to be Fifty (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937, contrib.: Humorous Ghost Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), ed. by Dorothy Scarborough, also contrib. by Oscar Wilde, Gelett Burgess, Frank R. Stockton, Théophile Gautier, Brander Matthews, John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Middleton, Wallace Irwin, Nelson Lloyd, Eden Phillpotts, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Will Adams, Washington Irving, Thomas Ingoldsby, Burges Johnson, Elsie Brown, and Rose Cecil O'Neill Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Incubator Baby (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), illust. by May Wilson Preston (multiple formats at archive.org) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlett, Book Agent (Gutenberg text) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), illust. by G. C. Widney (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1909), illust. by G. C. Widney (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1909), illust. by G. C. Widney (multiple formats at archive.org) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), illust. by Rea Irvin Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs Is Pigs (Gutenberg text) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Selected works and commentary (HTML at Wayback Machine) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Water Goats, and Other Troubles (Gutenberg text)
Additional books by Ellis Parker Butler in the extended shelves: Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The adventures of a suburbanite (Doubleday, Page & company, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The adventures of a suburbanite (Musson, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Adventures of a Suburbanite, illust. by A. B. Phelan (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The cheerful smugglers (Century Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Chicken yard that was a Christmas stocking (Doubleday, Page, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The confessions of a daddy (The Century co., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Confessions of a Daddy, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Dominie Dean : a novel (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917), also by Victor Semon Pérard and Fleming H. Revell Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Dominie Dean: A Novel, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: An experiment in gyro-hats (Q and C Co., 1907), also by Albert Levering (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: An experiment in gyro-hats, illust. by Albert Levering (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The French decorative styles from the earliest times to the present day; a hand-book for ready reference by the editors of the Upholstery dealer and decorative furnisher. (T.A. Cawthra & Co., 1904), also by Brittain B. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Ghosts what ain't (Houghton Mifflin company, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Goat-feathers (Houghton Miffin company, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The great American pie company. (McClure, Phillips, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The great American pie company (McClure, Phillips & co., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The great American pie company (Musson, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The great American pie company (Burt, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Great American Pie Company, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: How it feels to be fifty (Houghton Mifflin company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: How It Feels to Be Fifty (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: In pawn. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: In Pawn, illust. by Robert Lynn Lambdin (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The incubator baby (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The incubator baby (Musson, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Incubator Baby, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The jack-knife man (The Century Co., 1913), also by Hanson Booth and Century Company (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The jack-knife man (Grosset & Dunlap, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Jack-Knife Man, illust. by Hanson Booth (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Jibby Jones; a story of Mississippi River adventure for boys (Houghton Mifflin company, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Jibby Jones : A story of Mississippi River adventure for boys, illust. by Arthur Garfield Dove (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Jibby Jones and the alligator : the story of the young alligator-hunters of the upper Mississippi valley (Houghton Mifflin company, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Kilo; being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent (The McClure company, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent (Grosset & Dunlap, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Kilo; being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Many happy returns of the day! (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mike Flannery on duty and off (A. S. Burt co., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mike Flannery on duty and off (Musson Book Co., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Mr. Perkins of Portland (Copp, Clark, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Perkins of Portland: Perkins the Great (H.B. Turner & co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Perkins of Portland: Perkins The Great (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Philo Gubb : Correspondence-School detective (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Philo Gubb : correspondence-school detective : with illustrations (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918), also by Rea Irvin, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (A. L. Burt, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (McClure, Phillips, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (Doubleday, Page & company, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs. (Doubleday, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (Musson, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pigs is pigs (Doubleday, Doran, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pups and pies (Doubleday, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Pups and pies (The Sun dial press, inc., 1938) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Red Head and Whistle Breeches (Bancroft Company, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Red Head and Whistle Breeches, illust. by Arthur D. Fuller (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The revolt : a play in one act (S. French, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Revolt: A Play In One Act (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Robinson Crusoe and thrift stamps ([publisher not identified], 1917), also by Crawford Young (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The Strack platform readings, from the stories of Ellis Parker Butler (Walter H. Baker company, 1925), also by Lilian Holmes Strack (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Swatty; a story of real boys (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Swatty: A Story of Real Boys, illust. by W. B. King (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: That pup (McClure Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: That pup (Pub. by Doubleday, Page for Review of Reviews, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: That pup (A.L. Burt co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: That Pup, illust. by F. Strothmann (Gutenberg ebook) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: Two friends and their supporting investments before--during--after, being a short tale, a merry fable, and a couple of morals (J. H. Oliphant & Co., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The water goats, and other troubles (A. L. Burt co., 1910) (page images at HathiTrust) Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937: The water goats, and other troubles (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
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