61. Octavia Estelle Butler Biography octavia butler by Marleen S. Barr, Mercer Island, Washington, Starmont House, 1986; Across the Wounded Galaxies Interviews with Contemporary American http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4197/Butler-Octavia-Estelle.html

Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Contemporary Novelists Vol 3 Octavia Estelle Butler Biography Find all books written by Octavia Estelle Butler on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Pasadena, California, 1947. Education: Pasadena City College, A.A. 1968. Awards: Fifth prize, Short Story Contest, 1967; Creative Arts Achievement award (Los Angeles YWCA), 1980; Hugo award (World Science Fiction Convention), 1984, 1985; Nebula award (Science Fiction Writers of America), 1985; Locus award ( Locus magazine), 1985; Best novelette award ( Science Fiction Chronicle Reader ), 1985; MacArthur fellowship, 1995. P UBLICATIONS Novels Patternmaster. New York, Doubleday, 1976. Mind of My Mind. New York, Doubleday, 1977. Survivor. New York, Doubleday, 1978. Kindred. New York, Doubleday, 1979; second edition, Boston, Beacon Press, 1988. Wild Seed. New York, Doubleday, 1980. Dawn: Xenogenesis. New York, Warner Books, 1987. Adulthood Rites: Xenogenesis. New York, Warner Books, 1988. Imago. New York, Warner Books, 1989. The Evening and the Morning and the Night.

62. Index Magazine Interview For more than two decades, octavia butler has crafted intense, Entranced with scifi books from an early age, octavia butler decided at thirteen that http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/octavia_butler.shtml

Octavia Butler, WITH MIKE McGONIGAL PHOTOGRAPHED BY MIRIAM BERKLEY Kindred science fact . It is imaginative writing, but it is firmly grounded in the world in which we live, where we come from, and in the bodies and minds we inhabit, not only physically, but morally and spiritually. MIKE: I recently read Kindred OCTAVIA: Kindred Kindred MIKE: How you did research the book? OCTAVIA: MIKE: What year were you writing that book? OCTAVIA: Of course, there were stories of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, because they were both Marylanders. But I felt that if I could do it, I needed to go to Maryland. I sold a novel called Survivor OCTAVIA: Three and a half. MIKE: Oh, goodness! OCTAVIA: MIKE: It seems you put a lot of research into your work. OCTAVIA: MIKE: Is that usually what the process is like for you? OCTAVIA: OCTAVIA: I suspect so, yeah. MIKE: How does this fascination manifest itself with you, though? OCTAVIA: I worry about these things. MIKE: Do you read technical and scientific journals? OCTAVIA: Not so much journals, unless you want to call

63. Octavia Butler 1999 ST Lecturer 1999 Sojourner Truth Lecturer octavia butler. AN EVENING WITH octavia E. butler Who is octavia E. butler? Where is she headed? Where has she been? http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/idbs/others/OctaviaB.htm

The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies The Claremont Colleges 220 Steele Hall Claremont, CA 91711 1999 Sojourner Truth Lecturer: Octavia Butler "AN EVENING WITH OCTAVIA E. BUTLER" October 12, 1999, 8:00 p.m. Broad Performance Space - Broad Center, Pitzer College Click here to see a map of Claremont, CA 91711-3908: 1. Who is Octavia E. Butler? Where is she headed? Where has she been? Who am I? I'm a 52-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial-a hermit living in a city-a pessimist if I'm not careful; a student, endlessly curious; a feminist- and African-American; a former Baptist; and an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. 2. What have you written? My most recent novel, PARABLE OF THE TALENTS, was published in November, 1998 by Seven Stories Press. 3. What were your educational preparations for a writing career? I graduated from Pasadena City College in 1968 (Pasadena, California is my hometown).Then I attended California State University, Los Angeles. I also took a few extension classes at UCLA. But the most valuable help I received with my writing came from two workshops. The first was the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers' Guild of America, West (1969-70). The second was Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop(1970). IDBS Home Page Courses Conference Programs Sojourner Truth Lectures ... Links

64. Feature: Octavia Butler | 12/27/2006 | Citypaper.com As a 6foot-tall African-American woman, speculative-fiction writer octavia butler always stood out in a roomful of her mostly white and male peers. http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13075

65. Lorem Ipsum: R.I.P., Octavia Butler R.I.P., octavia butler. 27 February 2006, 156 AM. For those who haven t heard sf writer octavia E. butler died on Saturday, age 58. http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2006/02/27/3417.html

Lorem Ipsum Being the online journal of Jed Hartman email Jed Main R.I.P., Octavia Butler 27 February 2006, 1:56 AM For those who haven't heard: sf writer Octavia E. Butler died on Saturday, age 58. Here are some relevant links (I haven't read/heard all of these yet, so can't vouch for the quality of all of them): Seattle Times obituary , including some quotes from Harlan Ellison and Steven Barnes. Seattle Post-Intelligencer obituary , including more detailed quotes from Barnes and Tananarive Due. It suggests that the cause of death was falling and hitting her head; earlier reports had suggested a possible stroke. AP obituary apparently also published in the Seattle P-I . And another version of the AP obituary in USA Today Brief SFWA obituary Butler interview from Indypendent from a couple weeks ago. Edward Champion podcast interview of Butler , apparently from December of 2005. Heather Shaw's SH article about Butler's work from December of 2000. Brief author bio from about five years ago. In that author bio, Butler wrote: "I'm a 53-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer." I'm sad she won't get that chance. Post a comment If you have a LiveJournal username, you can sign in by entering it here:

66. Octavia Butler Biography And List Of Works - Octavia Butler Books octavia butler Biography octavia Estelle butler (June 22, 1947- February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of very few http://www.biblio.com/authors/233/Octavia_Butler_Biography.html

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67. Octavia Butler Quotes 35 quotes and quotations by octavia butler. octavia butler And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/octavia_butler.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Octavia Butler Quotes Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: June 22 Date of Death: February 24 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Octavia Butler Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard ... Jeff Long A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. Octavia Butler And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. Octavia Butler And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. Octavia Butler But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. Octavia Butler Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

68. Village Voice > Books > Parable Of The Writer: Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006 By D Parable of the Writer octavia E. butler, 19472006. http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0610,hampton,72428,10.html

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69. Education And Community Programs » Kiki, Vampires, And Octavia Butler Up on the ninth floor, our discussion of the novel began somberly as we paused briefly to eulogize author octavia butler, who passed away this past week. http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2006/03/03/kiki-vampires-and-octavia-butler/

@import url( http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/wp-content/themes/ecp/style.css ); Education and Community Programs Walker Art Center Part of: blogs.walkerart.org Kiki, vampires, and Octavia Butler by Roger Nieboer at 11:11 am 2006-03-03 Filed under: General Last Night at the Walker Last night's meeting of The Artist's Bookshelf got off to a stimulating start with a fascinating tour/discussion of the current Kiki Smith exhibit. Our discussion focused on five of Ms. Smith's full-body sculptures, and covered topics ranging from bodily fluids to the iconography of the Roman Catholic Church. Those of us who had already read this month's book club selection (Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler), gasped in unison as we came upon the wall-gripping bronze entitled "Lilith." For, as we looked into those eerie, all-too-human eyes, we couldn't help but be startled by the sculpture's striking resemblance to the novel's protagonist, a child-vampire named Shori. Up on the ninth floor, our discussion of the novel began somberly as we paused briefly to eulogize author Octavia Butler, who passed away this past week. Because much of her work deals so directly with re-examining and re-defining human life, and all of its permutations, it seemed somewhat uncomfortable yet some how appropriate to dive right into to an investigation of her most recent, and, unfortunately, her final work. Most of us reacted positively to the novel, and expressed agreement on its progressive social positionings against racism, sexism, and the inherent perils of hierarchical structures. There was some discord, however, in evaluating the literary merits of the prose itself, with a somewhat predictable breakdown between fans and non-fans of the science-fiction genre.

70. NYPL, LIVE From The NYPL, Event Description Writers and friends of octavia E. butler, who died in February, 2006, octavia E. butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=2132

71. Octavia Butler - A Social Science Fiction Writer I love octavia butler, and was heartbroken when she died in March 2006. butler s fiction was definitely in the social science fiction vein, and she wrote a http://archaeology.about.com/od/octaviabutler/Octavia_Butler_A_Social_Science_Fi

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72. Obituary: Octavia Butler | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited Books With her vivid intelligence and powerful work ethic, the American novelist octavia butler, who has died aged 58 following a fall, was a pioneering figure in http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1731987,00.html

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74. ATR 15 – Feb 6, 2006 - Voicemail 206-203-3983 - Addictedtorace@gm Jen interviews renowned science fiction writer octavia butler, It was an honor to have the legendary writer octavia butler on our show. http://www.addictedtorace.com/?p=29

75. Octavia Butler - Pasadena City College octavia butler has been well received by the critics. Burton Raffel had this to say about butler s work initially drawn on by the utterly unexpected power http://www.pasadena.edu/about/history/alumni/butler/butler.cfm

Search: PCC Site PCC People skip to main content directories employment contact us ... PCC History Octavia Butler back Biography Butler received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena City College. She then attended California State University, Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. She credits her success to nonacademic programs, though. Two of these programs are the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers Guild of America and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. While attending school Butler held down a lot of odd jobs. Her work experiences come through in the character of Dana in her novel Kindred (as quoted above). Butler also spends time researching developments in biology, the physical sciences, and genetics. Butler has won several awards for her writing. In 1984 she won a Hugo Award for her short story, "Speech Sounds." In 1985 she won the Hugo for her novella "Bloodchild." "Bloodchild" also won the 1984 Nebula Award. The Hugo and Nebula Awards are considered science fiction's highest awards. They are decided on by other science fiction writers and fans. In 1995, Butler won the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" which pays $295,000 over 5 years.

76. ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions octavia butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, and Parable of the Sower, and one collection of short fiction, Bloodchild, http://www.lfla.org/aloud/11butler.php

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78. Octavia E. Butler Sunday morning, when a magazine reporter sent me word that octavia butler had died, I didn’t want to believe it. I saw nothing in the news nor on the Web. http://www.tananarivedue.com/Octavia Butler.htm

Home About Tananarive Due Join Tananarive Due's Readers Circle post a message read the blog Tour Schedule My Soul To Keep Movie update JOPLIN'S GHOST read an excerpt order this book THE GOOD HOUSE: A NOVEL read an excerpt buy It FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY About This Book Buy It THE LIVING BLOOD Read an Excerpt Reviews Links Buy It THE BLACK ROSE Synopsis Read an Excerpt Reviews Links ... Buy It MY SOUL TO KEEP Synopsis Read an Excerpt Reviews Links ... Buy It THE BETWEEN Read an Excerpt Reviews Buy It Tananarive ... Interviews List of Short Fiction Contact Us Octavia E. Butler 22 June 1947 - 25 February 2006 All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God ls Change. -Earthseed: The Books of the Living (from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower On Octavia E. Butler November 1997 Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due October 2004 Steven Barnes, Nalo Hopkinson, Octavia E. Butler

79. SeeLight: Octavia Butler We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. http://clairelight.typepad.com/seelight/2006/02/octavia_butler.html

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80. Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Book Review - Kindred By Octavia Butler I ve just finished a haunting book called kindred by the amazing and prolific octavia butler. This is the 25th anniversary edition from 2004 this book was http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BookReviewKindredByOctaviaButler.aspx

var allowedHtmlTags = ['a', 'b', 'blockquote', 'em', 'i', 'strike', 'strong', 'sub', 'super', 'u']; Subscribe About Me Weekly Podcast iTunes ... Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com Programming Life and the Zen of Computers Main Book Review - Kindred by Octavia Butler Posted in Reviews Zenzo I'm going to be posting a number of book reviews this week as I used a chunk of the weekend while Zenzo slept to catch up on my reading. Some'll be technical, some not. I've just finished a haunting book called kindred by the amazing and prolific Octavia Butler . This is the 25th anniversary edition from 2004 - this book was written in 1979. The premise is that Dana, a modern Black woman, is called back to the early 19th century to save the life of a white ancestor. In the present her husband is White and at one point is pulled back with her. The dynamics of their relationship change dramatically as it is assumed that she is a recently enslaved freewoman from the North travelling with her owner (in fact her husband.) Their relationship is tested as they are forced to live dramatically different lives. Most painfully to watch is how quickly and believably they slip into their expected roles, that of slave and slave owner. As an interracial couple they've typically swept awareness of their differing ethnicities under the rug, but those differences and associated race memories are pulled to the forefront when the extraordinary circumstances drag on.

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