![]() ![]() Guy and Laurice Butler, though her father passed away when she was a young girl. Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. Not only can we take Butler’s words at face value to understand her devotion to writing and her personality and beliefs, but we can also see the sharpness and incisiveness-even in this small sample paragraph-that characterizes her work. A pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil and water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” I am also comfortably asocial, a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles. ![]() Her body of work, including such acclaimed novels as Kindred and Parable of the Sower, is lauded for its trenchant social commentary and continued pertinence well beyond its original publication.īutler’s self-penned author description in an early edition of Parable of the Sower gives us a great picture of the person she was: “Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. Butler was a renowned Black author who wrote in, and arguably revolutionized, the science fiction genre. ![]()
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