5/24/2023 0 Comments Octavia butler xenogenesis series![]() She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. ![]() In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.Īfter her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. ![]() She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. ![]() ![]() Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. ![]()
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