Ellis Parker Butler

thumb| 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. Quotes Three millions yearly for manure,But not one cent for literature. Motto for Iowa, his native state. Quoted in Johan J. Smertenko, "Iowa—A Mortgaged Eldorado", The Nation, vol. 115, no. 2,997 (December 13, 1922) p. 660. Also quoted in Upton Sinclair, The Goose-Step (1923) ch. 68, p. 337 External links Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Humorists from the United States Category:People from Iowa Category:1869 births Category:1937 deaths