Michel Butor is a French writer. Michel Marie Fran ois Butor was born in Mons-en-Bar ul, a suburb of Lille. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. Butor was a close friend and colleague of Elinor Miller, a French professor at Embry Riddle University. Butor and Miller worked collaboratively on translations and lectures. In 2002, Miller published a book on Butor entitled Prisms and Rainbows: Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jiri Kolar, and Pierre Alechinsky.
