Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction writer born in Pasadena, California. She won Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her books include Kindred, a time-travel novel about a young Black woman drawn back to a slaveholding ancestor, and the Parable novels, beginning with Parable of the Sower. Butler died of a stroke in 2006 at the age of 58.