Author:Ellis Parker Butler

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Ellis Parker Butler
(1869–1937)

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American author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories, poems, and essays. Best known 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.
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Ellis Parker Butler

Works

The French Decorative Styles (1904) non-fiction IA
Perkins of Portland: Perkins the Great (1906) IA

Mr. Perkins of Portland
The Adventure of Mr. Silas Boggs
The Adventure of the Lame and the Halt (also in Leslie's Magazine, 1904)
The Adventure of the Fifth Street Church (also in Leslie's Magazine, 1904)
The Adventure in Automobiles
The Adventure of the Poet
The Adventure of the Crimson Cord (also as "The Crimson Cord" in Leslie's Magazine, 1904)
The Adventure of the Princess of Pilliwink

The Incubator Baby (1906) IA
The Confessions of a Daddy (1907) IA
The Great American Pie Company (1907) IA
The Cheerful Smugglers (1908) IA
That Pup (1908; ss) IA
The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard that Was a Christmas Stocking (1909; ss) IA
Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent IA
Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (1909) IA
The Water Goats and Other Troubles (1910) IA
The Adventures of a Suburbanite (1911) IA
The Revolt: a play in one act (1912) IA
Red Head and Whistle Breeches (1915; ss) IA
Goat-Feathers (1918; ss) IA
Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective (1913) short stories PG : IA : librivox
The Jack-knife Man (1913) IA
Dominie Dean: a novel (1917) IA
Swatty; a story of real boys (1920) IA
How It Feels to Be Fifty (1920) IA
Jibby Jones. A Story of Mississippi River Adventure for Boys (1923)

Short works from magazines

"The Amateur Censor" (1917-18, St. Nicholas) (ss)
"Beating the Law" (ss) in Red Book Magazine April 1921
"A Bird in the Hand," in The American Magazine, Nov 1906
'"Dey Ain't No Ghosts",' in The Century Magazine, Sep 1913
"The Dog That Returned to Mexico" (1906, St. Nicholas) (ss)
"Economic Waste" (1919 Oct, Everybody's) (ss)
"An Experiment in Gyro-Hats" in Amazing Stories, June 1926
"Getting Rid of Fluff," in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1908 (also published as That Pup, 1908)
"The Grafters" in The Smart Set, Jul 1905
"Green Paint" (Saturday Evening Post, July 19, 1924).
"The Heart of a Man" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 19, 1903-04
"The Hopeless Case of Artabanus Biffle" in Canada West, Apr 1911
"The House That Would Not Wait" in Canada West, Jan 1911
"Judicial Negligence" in Collier's, Dec 11, 1909
"The Lady Across the Aisle," in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1906
"The Literature Factory" (1913, Century) (ss)
"Lover's Leap," in Harper's Magazine, June 1919
"The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday," in The Century Magazine, July 1913
"A Matter of Economy," in The Century Magazine, Apr 1906
"Mighty Tight Money" (Woman's Home Companion, March, 1924)
"The Murderer," in Green Book magazine, Dec 1916
"Once a Penguin Always a Penguin," in Harper's Magazine, 1921
"Mr. Perkins of Portland" in The Century Magazine, Feb 1900
"Pap Brigg's Phenomenal Hen-Food" in The Century Magazine, Apr 1900
"Phantom Fingers," in Green Book magazine, Jul 1916
"Pigs Is Pigs" IA
"Putting one Over Abram" in Canada West, Aug 1911
"The Quarrelsome Club," in Harper's Magazine, Nov 1916
"The Rowena O'Toole Company" (1905-06, St. Nicholas) (ss)
"Rushing Her," in Green Book magazine, Oct 1916
"The Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk," in Harper's Magazine, May 1918
"Teeth_Is_Teeth" (1910 Jan, Cosmopolitan) ss
"The Trouble With Martha," in Harper's Magazine, Dec 1917
"T. Jebberson," in The Blue Book Magazine, Aug 1916
"Wetter New York: A tale of New York in 1913" (ss) in The American Magazine, Jun 1907
"Solander's Radio Tomb" (in Amazing Stories, 1927)

Verse

"The Ballade of the Automobile," in Leslie's Monthly Magazine, Jan 1904
"To Jessica, Gone Back to the City," The Century Magazine, Nov 1897
"A Study in Feeling," in Frank Leslie's Popular Magazine, Jan 1901
"The Yarn of Captain Bill," in The Century Magazine, Apr 1906
"Why Washington Retreated," in The Century Magazine, Nov 1905

Also see: Ellis Parker Butler, Short Story Collection, Vol. 1, audiobooks at librivox

About Butler

"Butler, Ellis Parker," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1937, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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