At A Glance: 13 Legendary Octavia E. Butler Facts

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At A Glance: 13 Legendary Octavia E. Butler Facts

If you haven't read Octavia E. Butler's work before, let this serve as a fun wake-up call. Her award-winning writing has only become more relevant with time. She passed away in 2006 when public interest in her books was just on the rise and has since risen to mainstream attention, outside of the limiting genres of science-fiction, Black, or feminist writing. 

AT A GLANCE OCTAVIA E. BUTLER She was inspired to start writing sci-fi after watching a bad movie. GIRL DEVIL MARS FROM When she was 12, she saw Devil Girl From Mars and decided she could write something better than that. CRACKED.COM

Source: MIT

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