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Octavia Butler

Octavia ButlerAKA Octavia Estelle Butler

Born: 22-Jun-1947
Birthplace: Pasadena, CA
Died: 24-Feb-2006
Location of death: Lake Forest Park, WA
Cause of death: Accident - Fall

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Patternmaster

(Photo credit: Copyright Miriam Berkley, all rights reserved.)

Father: Laurice Butler
Mother: Octavia M. "Guy" Butler

    University: AA, Pasadena City College (1968)
    University: Cal State Los Angeles
    University: University of California at Los Angeles

    Dean for America
    MacArthur Fellowship 1995
    Hugo 1983 for short story Speech Sounds
    Nebula 1999 for novel Parable of the Talents

Author of books:
Patternmaster (1976, novel, Patternist)
Mind of My Mind (1977, novel, Patternist)
Survivor (1978, novel, Patternist)
Kindred (1979, novel)
Wild Seed (1980, novel, Patternist)
Clay's Ark (1984, novel, Patternist)
Dawn (1987, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Adulthood Rites (1988, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Imago (1989, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Parable of the Sower (1994, novel, Parable)
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995, short stories)
Parable of the Talents (1998, novel, Parable)
Lilith's Brood (2000, the three Xenogenesis Trilogy books)


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