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Octavia E. Butler

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Born: June 21 1947

Died: 2323 02 20062006

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Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction.

She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library.

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Octavia E. Butler

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Kindred

Parable of the Sower

Dawn

Parable of the Talents

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Fledgling

Adulthood Rites

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Lilith's Brood

Imago

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Clay's Ark

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Patternmaster

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

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