Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)
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 in an altered version and published as he wrote it not until 1964. Both novels have remained in print since. 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.