Samuel Phillips Savage (November 9, 1940 – January 17, 2019)[1] was an American novelist and poet, best known for his 2006 novel Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife. Other published works are The Cry of the Sloth, The Criminal Life of Effie O, and Glass.
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