![]() ![]() She got to work on the story and it became the basis for what would later become her Patternist series of books. ![]() She was 12 years old when she watched the television version of the film Devil Girl from Mars and decided that she could write a better story herself. At the age of 10, her mother bought her a Remington typewriter that allowed her to begin writing more. ![]() This lead to her being bullied at school and she passed her time reading science fiction at the local library. She had a tough childhood as she suffered from shyness and slight dyslexia. The genre was dominated by white males and her mother saw her hoped that she might one day become a secretary. She was also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the PEN American Center and is an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.īutler was born in Pasadena, California in 1947 at a time when young black girls were not expected to become writers. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998 for her book, Parable of the Talents. She is perhaps best known for her novel, Kindred which follows an African-American woman who is transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th-century Maryland where she meets her ancestors. ![]() Butler was a legendary writer in the world of science-fiction and the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. ![]()
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