'Pigs is Pigs' Turns 100: Famous Story Still Going Strong.

HOUSTON -- www.EllisParkerButler.Info is celebrating September 2005 as the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Pigs is Pigs," arguably one of the most famous short stories of the pulp fiction era.

"Pigs is Pigs," written by Ellis Parker Butler, an author and a speaker well known in his time and often billed as "America's Leading Humorist," is a humorous tale in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically.

Originally published in the September 1905 first issue of the American Illustrated Magazine (a publication that had for 30 years been known as Frank Leslie's Monthly Magazine), "Pigs is Pigs" caused the magazine's issue to sell out to the last copy.

Since then, "Pigs is Pigs" has been republished many times including more than a dozen editions as a 37-page book. The books sold more than a million copies in less than twenty years. The story remained so popular for so long that Walt Disney produced a cartoon version in 1954. Still read and studied today, "Pigs is Pigs" has been included in anthologies of American literature from 1906 through 2004.

The illustrated text for "Pigs is Pigs" is online and may be downloaded for free on the web site www.EllisParkerButler.Info.

Ellis Parker Butler

Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, Ellis Parker Butler was, by every measure and by many times, the most published author of the pulp fiction era.

Born on December 5, 1869, in Muscatine, Iowa, Butler's career spanned more than forty years. His stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 different magazines and 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. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Ellis Parker Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in the local New York City and Queens communities.

A founding member of the Dutch Treat Club and the Author's League of America, Ellis Parker Butler died on September 13, 1937, at his summer home in Williamsville, Massachusetts.

Butler's work has come full circle. Once the most published author of his era, Ellis Parker Butler is now one of the world's most accessible authors with more than 525 of his stories and poems available online for free.

For more information about Ellis Parker Butler and to read many of his published works, visit www.EllisParkerButler.Info.

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