The New York Times regarded this author’s novels as “evocative” and “often troubling” explorations of “far-reaching issues of race, sex, power”… Get great book deals and freebies straight to your email everyday: Subscribe to BookGorilla—it’s free!
Octavia E. Butler is the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower.
From Wikipedia: Born in Pasadena, California, Octavia Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. 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 soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She also taught writer’s workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library. Read full Wiki page here
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