| LC control no. | n 79056654 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.U827 |
| Personal name heading | Butler, Octavia E. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Lake Forest Park (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1947-06-22 |
| Death date | 2006-02-24 |
| Place of birth | Pasadena (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Speculative fiction |
| Affiliation | Pasadena City College (Pasadena, Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Found in | Her Patternmaster, 1976. Her Clay's ark, 1984: CIP title page (Octavia Butler) galley (Octavia E. Butler) Parable of the sower, c1993: title page (Octavia E. Butler) jkt. (b. in Pasadena) Biog. resource center (Contemporary authors), June 17, 2004 (Octavia E(stelle) Butler; b. June 22, 1947, Pasadena, Calif.) New York times WWW site, Mar. 1, 2006 (Octavia E. Butler; b. Octavia Estelle Butler, June 22, 1947, Pasadena, Calif.; d. Friday [Feb. 24, 2006] after a fall near her home in Lake Forest Park, Wash., aged 58; internationally acclaimed science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power, and, ultimately, what it means to be human) Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (b. June 22, 1947) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Butler, Octavia E; Octavia Estelle Butler; born June 22,1947 in Pasadena, California, United States; science fiction writer; Associate of Arts degree, Pasadena City College (1968); participated in the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (1970) which immersed her in a science fiction community and helped launch her career; relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1999; died February 24, 2006 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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