Octavia Butler will be sadly missed but never forgotten. Through her work, she created new worlds that could only be traveled and lived through her writing she told stories of the struggles and pain of black people. In 2019 Pasadena City College announced an Octavia Butler Scholarship to students in the pathway program committed to attend a four year institution. This program provides an annual Scholarship which enables African writers the opportunity to attend the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Clarion Workshop which is also where Butler attend while becoming a writer. That same year a Memorial Scholarship was established in Butler”s memory by Carl Brandon Society. Butler died at her home in Seattle she was 58 years old. She also won the short story Hugo Award for “Speech Sound” and both the Nebula Prize and Hugo Award for her novel Bloodchild (1995) and Parable of Talents. Fledgling (2005) was Butler’s last novel.īutler was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur Foundations Fellowship ’genius’ grant and a PEN award for lifetime achievement in 2000. Butler continued to write many short stories, essays, and speeches. Butler’s next series called Earthseed included novels Parable of The Sower (1993) and Parable of The Talents (1998). Butler later wrote Xenogenesis trilogy which included Dawn (1989), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). Kindred is about a black woman being sent to a pre-civil war plantation, where she becomes a slave while rescuing her white slave-owning ancestor. In 1979 Butler wrote her novel Kindred which provided better stability financial. The other four books that completed the series are, Mind of Own (1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980) and Clay’s Ark (1984). These novels are about a group of people with telepathic powers ruled by a 4,000-year-old immortal African called Dora. In 1976 Butler’s novel Pattermaster ultimately became a five-part series. For her to have the time to write Butler worked at odd jobs. She also attended California State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. I wrote myself in since I’m me, and I’m here, and I’m writing.” Science fiction as a genre meant limitless possibilities for Butler.īutler attended Pasadena City College and earned her A.A. The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn’t manage anything anyway. At fifteen, Butler began writing science fiction.īutler later confesses during an interview with the New York Times, “When I started reading science fiction, I wasn’t in any of that stuff I read. She created stories and always believed that her stories could be better than the ones she read. At ten years old Butler knew she would become a writer. She especially loved reading science fiction. Butler spent most of her free time in the library because of her shyness, and her love for reading began. Butler faced many challenges, but with strong will and determination, she aspired to work twice as hard. Despite the challenges of being dyslexic, she was determined to have a successful and meaningful life. She was known to be very shy and was also diagnosed with dyslexia as a child. With age, Butler began to understand the struggles her mother endured daily. Her mother worked as a maid to provide for them. Butler and was raised by her mother, Octavia M. At a young age, she lost her father Laurice J. I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination ofĪmbition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” -Octavia Butler,īutler was born in Pasadena California. I’m also comfortably asocial-a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles-a pessimist if Remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. Octavia Estelle Butler (J– February 24, 2006) Octavia Butler was Voted the #15 Favorite Author of the 20th Century Octavia Butler is Currently #4 in Voting for Favorite Author of the 21st Century Octavia Butler is a Top 100 Bestselling Author Making Our List 20 Times “There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
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