| Octavia Butler  AKA Octavia Estelle Butler
Born: 22-Jun-1947
Birthplace: Pasadena, CA
Died: 24-Feb-2006
Location of death: Lake Forest Park, WA
Cause of death: Accident - Fall
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Patternmaster (Photo credit: Copyright Miriam Berkley, all rights reserved.) Father: Laurice Butler
Mother: Octavia M. "Guy" Butler
University: AA, Pasadena City College (1968)
University: Cal State Los Angeles
University: University of California at Los Angeles
Dean for America
MacArthur Fellowship 1995
Hugo 1983 for short story Speech Sounds
Nebula 1999 for novel Parable of the Talents
Author of books:
Patternmaster (1976, novel, Patternist)
Mind of My Mind (1977, novel, Patternist)
Survivor (1978, novel, Patternist)
Kindred (1979, novel)
Wild Seed (1980, novel, Patternist)
Clay's Ark (1984, novel, Patternist)
Dawn (1987, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Adulthood Rites (1988, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Imago (1989, novel, Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Parable of the Sower (1994, novel, Parable)
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995, short stories)
Parable of the Talents (1998, novel, Parable)
Lilith's Brood (2000, the three Xenogenesis Trilogy books)
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