Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. She was extremely shy as a child, but Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Butler attended community college during the Black Power movement in the 1960s. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop which focused on science fiction. Butler sold her first stories soon after, and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. Her works are widely read, with several series remaining popular well after her death including Parable of the Sower, the Patternist series, and the Xenogenesis...

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