I just got this from another group I'm on. I'm trying hard not to cry here.
Octavia E. Butler is one of my absolutely favorite authors. I just got
finished reading her latest book, Fledgling last week. I'm greatly saddened
that she won't be able to share any more of her stories with the world.
>Remembering Octavia E Butler: 1947 - 2006
>
>Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Octavia E Butler died
>suddenly Saturday, a victim of an apparent stroke. At age 58, she had
>achieved much more than once would expect from a dyslexic African American
>lesbian born to a shoe shiner.
>
>For her work, she had been awarded two Nebula and Hugo awards.
>
>Below is an excerpt from her bibliography at Wikipedia:
>
>Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947-February 25, 2006) was an American
>science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the
>field,
>and a leading lesbian writer. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was
>the first science fiction writer ever to be a recipient of the MacArthur
>Foundation "genius grant."
>
>Butler was born in Pasadena, California. Her father, a shoe shiner, died
>when she was young; her mother raised her in a struggling, racially mixed
>neighborhood. As a child, she was considered shy and a "daydreamer;" she
>was
>later diagnosed with dyslexia. She began writing at the age of 10 "to
>escape
>loneliness and boredom." She was 12 when she began a lifelong interest in
>science fiction.
>
>After getting an associate degree from Pasadena City College, she attended
>California State University and UCLA. She gave credit for her development
>as
>a writer to the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers Guild of America
>and
>the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop.
>
>Butler moved to Seattle in November 1999. She described herself as
>"comfortably asocial--a hermit in the middle of Seattle--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." She
>died of a stroke on February 25, 2006 at the age of 58.
>
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