# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellis-parker-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:27:46.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellis-parker-butler"
name: "Ellis Parker Butler"
slug: "ellis-parker-butler"
description: "Ellis Parker Butler 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."
tagline: "American writer (1869-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellis_Parker_Butler_LCCN2014719574_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1869-12-05"
deathDate: "1937-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0.5787781350482315
  historical:           7.878510666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124909/"
    handle:    "nm0124909"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "إليس باركر باتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler"
    title: "Ellis Parker Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler"
    title: "Ellis Parker Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler"
    title: "Ellis Parker Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "エリス・パーカー・バトラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler"
    title: "Ellis Parker Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%B9%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ایلس پارکر بٹلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5365961"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/223610"
    title: "Ellis Parker Butler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump