Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58.
She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. 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. 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 began writing science fiction as a teenager. Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.Īfter her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. She has been cited as a godmother of Afrofuturism, and Hilton Als has identified Butler as the " dominant artistic force" throughout Beyonce's visual album Lemonade. Most recently, it has been announced that Ava Duverney will adapt Dawn, one of Butler's Xenogenesis books, for television. If you're interested in diving into the work of Octavia Butler, we've got a guide to getting started with this remarkable writer.Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.
The first science fiction writer to ever receive the MacArthur Fellowship, Butler transcended the conventions of her chosen genre, exploring issues of empathy, social normativity, self-destruction, conservation, and tribalism. One of the few women of color publishing in a genre dominated by white men, Butler won the coveted Hugo Award and Nebula Prize twice each for her novella "Bloodchild," her short story "Speech Sounds," and her novel Parable of the Talents, respectively. However, Butler's legacy moves beyond prizes alone.
Born on June 22, 1947, Octavia Butler was a groundbreaking writer in American letters.
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