![]() ![]() She knew she wanted to write science fiction after seeing a 1954 B-Movie, Devil Girl from Mars, at age nine. From then on the library was my second home.” She had an endless appetite for stories and frequently made up her own while sitting on her grandmother’s porch. She immediately took me to the library and got me a card. She recalled her mother, “looked surprised and happy. Butler remembered accompanying her mother to work at wealthy homes in Pasadena and having to enter through the back door. Her mother, who only had three years of formal schooling, worked incredibly hard to make sure Butler had more opportunities and a better education than she had.īutler attended Pasadena public schools where, as a shy and frequently lonely student who struggled with dyslexia, she felt left behind. Her teachers interpreted her slower reading as an unwillingness to do the work rather than a sign of her struggles with dyslexia. When she was given books to read in school, she found them boring and unrelatable, and she begged her mother for a library card. Her father, who worked as a shoe shiner, died when she was seven and Butler was raised by her mother who worked as a maid and her grandmother. Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California in 1947. She grew up poor in a city that, while not segregated legally, was segregated in fact. Her books are now taught in schools and universities across the U.S. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women’s rights, and political disparity. As a result, she set the series aside and turned to work that she deemed a little lighter in tone.Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. However, as she tried to work on them, she became overwhelmed and emotionally drained. ![]() Butler did have plans for four more novels in this series, starting with Parable of the Trickster. The novel won the Nebula Award for Best Science Novel. Its sequel, Parable of the Talents (published in 1998), narrates a later generation of the same fictional world, in which right-wing fundamentalists have taken over. The novel introduces further explorations of religion, as its teenage protagonist struggles against the religion in her small town and forms a new belief system based on the idea of life on other planets. Then, in 1993, she published Parable of the Sower, a new novel set in a near-future California. At times, she accompanied her mother to her clients’ homes, where her mother was often treated poorly by her White employers.īutler took a few years off from publishing new work between 19. For the rest of her childhood, she was raised by her mother and her maternal grandmother, both of whom were strict Baptists. When Butler was only 7 years old, her father died. She was the first and only child of Octavia Margaret Guy, who was a housemaid, and Laurice James Butler, who worked as a shoeshine man. Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, in 1947. Selected Honors: Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1984), Nebula Award for Best Novelette (1984), Locus Award for Best Novelette (1985), Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1985), Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette (1985 1988), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1999), Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2010).I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” ![]() Notable Quote: “I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open.Education: Pasadena City College, California State University, University of California at Los Angeles.Died: Februin Lake Forest Park, Washington.Parents: Octavia Margaret Guy and Laurice James Butler.Known For: Black American science fiction author. ![]()
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