Octavia E. Butler
22 June 1947 – 24 February 2006
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer whose novels combined speculative premises with themes of race, power and survival. Her books include Kindred, the Xenogenesis trilogy and Parable of the Sower. She won Hugo and Nebula Awards for her short fiction and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Life events
She was raised in Pasadena by her mother and grandmother.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe workshop introduced her to editors and writers who supported her early career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIt was the first published book in her Patternist sequence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel follows a modern Black woman transported to an antebellum Maryland plantation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel opens her Earthseed sequence, set in a collapsing near-future California.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was the first science fiction writer to be awarded the fellowship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died outside her home at the age of 58.
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