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Octavia Estelle Butler, born June 22, 1947, in Pasadena California, was the first science fiction writer to ever receive the MacArthur award. Prior to Butler received her education locally at Pasadena City College, then California State College and eventually UCLA where she took classes on writing. Her writing genre ranged from science fiction to romance to horror fiction and parables that spoke of a better way of life for people who not only looked like her but also dreamed as she did. In one of her books called the Parable of the Sower, Butler’s creative writing skills sought to portray the image of God as one of superiority over all mankind and spoke of His destiny for humanity which she clearly imitates in her life’s work.

One of Butler’s most notable works wasn’t a book, but a vision written on the back of a notebook that appears to foretell her future as an award-winning author; and although Butler was born many years after the onset of the Harlem Renaissance, she brought a new and creative art form of storytelling to the scene. A woman who had received a genius award and once thought she had no power, became the most powerful writer of her time. Butler’s literary legacy can be found at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden located in the state in which she was born, California.

==References

Butler, O. E. (2000). Parable of the sower. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Library, T. H. (2017). Octavia E. butler: Telling my stories. Science-Fiction Studies, 44(3), 640-640. https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0640

Natalie Russell (2019) Meeting Octavia E. Butler in Her Papers, Women's Studies, 48:1, 8-25, DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2018.1559406