Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library in Southern California. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington.
Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public, and awards soon followed. She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, then held in Pennsylvania, which focused on science fiction. She attended community college during the Black Power movement. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. īorn in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Octavia Estelle Butler (J– February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. ‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans.Butler signing a copy of Fledgling in 2005 ‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before.īut Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown.įrightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what’s left of humankind – or become the biggest threat to their survival. Butler, the acclaimed Lilith’s Brood trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just by growing up.
‘An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center’ VANITY FAIRįrom literary pioneer Octavia E. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct’ LUPITA NYONG’O ‘Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing.
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