Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)

Born: December 4, 1835, Langar, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Died: June 18, 1902, London, United Kingdom
Education: St John's College, Cambridge

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