Samuel Butler (novelist)

This article is about the 19th-century novelist. For the 17th-century poet, author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler (poet).

Samuel Butler
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Born(1835-12-04)4 December 1835
Langar, Nottinghamshire, England
Died18 June 1902(1902-06-18) (aged 66)
London, England
Occupationnovelist, writer
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh). Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Samuel Butler and Art | StJohns".
  2. ^ "Samuel Butler | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts".