Octavia Butler
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Author Name
Octavia Butler
Birth-Death
1947-2006
Biography and Works
Octavia Estelle Butler was an influential American author of science fiction. Her work foregrounds issues of class, race, and gender; her importance as a prominent Black author in a genre traditionally dominated by white authors is immense. Her novel Kindred has been adapted into a graphic novel and several of her novels are currently being developed for television series. Butler won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and she was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (Wikipedia - Octavia Butler).
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Octavia Butler