Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor

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Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was the author of more than 2,000 stories and essays, as well as 30 books. He remains 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 geometrically. This collection reveals his thoughts on writing humor, including Ten Rules for Humor and How I Sell My Stories.