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Octavia E. Butler
| born |
June 22, 1947
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| died |
February 24, 2006 |
| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
Pasadena, California, The United States |
| website |
http://www.sfwa.org/members/butler/Index.html |
| genre |
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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about this author
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
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