Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today hes almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays.
His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Unlike most tales of the kind, with moralistic endings where the sharps come to grief, Perkins and Co.
