Octavia E. Butler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Octavia E. Butler

American science fiction writer

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-2006

Profession: writer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an African-American science fiction author.
A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.Butler was born in Pasadena, California.
After her father died, she 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.