Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known African-American women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
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“When I die at any rate I shall do so in the full and certain hope that there will be no resurrection, but that death will give me quittance in full.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)