Parable of the Sower | Author Biography
Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947, the daughter of Laurice and Octavia Margaret (Guy) Butler. Her father died when she was a baby, and her mother supported the family by working as a maid. Butler loved reading science fiction stories as a child, and she soon started writing them herself. At the age of thirteen she was submitting her own stories to magazines.
Butler attended Pasadena City College, and while a student there she was awarded fifth prize in the Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest. She received an Associate of Arts...
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