Habit is persistence in practice.”īelow we have the essential Octavia Butler books to introduce you to the acclaimed author. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. This powerful novel about a modern black woman transported back in time to a slave plantation in the antebellum South is the perfect introduction to Butlers. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. “First forget inspiration," she wrote in her short story collection, Bloodchild and Other Stories. In 2019, the Los Angeles Public Library named its studio space the Octavia Lab in her honor. Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. And despite dying unexpectedly of a stroke at age 58 in 2006, her legacy still lives on.
In a literary genre dominated by white men, Butler published 15 novels and short story collections in her lifetime, received a MacArthur genius grant, and earned two Nebula and two Hugo awards, both esteemed recognitions in publishing. The groundbreaking sci-fi and speculative fiction author was a master of spinning imaginative tales that introduced you to both the possibilities-and dangers-of the human race, all while offering lessons on tribalism, race, gender, and sexuality. A self-described loner, Butler always stood apart: far from the loud tangle of children at. If we're talking must-read authors like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, the one-and-only Octavia Butler needs be a part of the conversation. Octavia Estelle Butler was the daughter of a shoeshine man, who died when she was a baby, and a maid.
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