2 Octavia Butler was dyslexic

3 Octavia Butler was introverted

4 Octavia Butler was 6 feet tall at 15 years old

5 Octavia Butler has a show about her called "Kindred"

6 Octavia Butler never drove a car

7 Octavia Butlers dad died when she was 7

8 Octavia Butler wrote her first book in downtown LA in the central library

9 Octavia Butler would wake up at 2 am to write before going to work as a potato chip inspector

10 Octavia Butler died from falling, but some think she had a stroke

11 Octavia Butler attended 3 different colleges

12 Octavia Butler was inspired by science fiction to start writing

13 Octavia Butler passed away at her home in Seattle but was buried in California

14 Octavia Butler predicted the LA fires in one of her books

15 Octavia Butler worked as a dishwaser

16 Octavia Butler also worked as a tele marketer

17 Octavia Butler chose mindless jobs so her mind would be free to write

18 Octavia Butler also worked as a warehouse worker

19 Octavia Butlers mother was a domestic worker

20 Octavia Butler often traveled to reaserch her novels

21 Octavia Butler was raised by her grandma and mother

22 Octavia Butler was one of the first African American and female science fiction writes

23 Octavia Butler grew up in a poor, illegally segregated city

24 Octavia Butler never married and had no kids

25 the research and writing of the Parable novels had overwhelmed and depressed her

*died Feb 24th 2006

*fledgling came out in 2005

*she published 11 novels

*she had a daughter that died when she was a baby

*she struggled with dyslexia

*her most famous book was kindred

*by the age of 15 she was already 6 foot

*she began making up stories at 5 or 6 and entertained her mother with them

*she earned her associate of arts degree in 1968

*her first novel was patternmaster and was published in 1976

*she was one of the first African American female science fiction writers

*she died of a stroke

*she didn't have anymore children

*she never married

*she was an only child

*she was known to be a recluse in her later years

*her father passed away when she was seven and was raised by her grandma and mother

*she won both a nebula and the Hugo awards

*she often wrote books about injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women's rights and political disparity

*her most famous quote is "all that you change, changes you. the only lasting truth is change"

*she went to Pasadena public school

• Died 2/24/06

• Graduated High school in 1965

• Grew up in Pasadena, California

• Dyslexic

• First got a typewriter at 10

• Graduated Pasadena City College in 1968

• Associate arts degree in history

• took writing classes at UCLA

• won a short story contest in college where she first earned money from her writings ($15)

• Her work is taught in 200 universities across the country

• Science Fiction novels explore themes of environmental and racial justice as well as women's rights

• Struggled to reach commercial success because of who she was but also what she wrote about

• Woke up at 2 am to write everyday while working various day jobs

• Struggled with depression as a side effect of her medication

• induced into Chicago State University"s international Black Writers Hall of Fame

• 'DAWN', is being developed into a TV show

• An opera was made based off of her novel Parable of the Sower

• Died of a stroke outside of her home in Washington State

• Many of her manuscripts, letters, and photographs were bequeathed to Huntington Library

• Donated one of her typewriters to the Smithsonian

• Moon landing site named after her by NASA

• Books often associated with the idea Afro-futurism

• 15 books

• never drove

• used public transportation

• Wrote a few essays and nonfiction papers

lived from 1947-2006

is dyslexic

knew she wanted to write science fiction in 1954 after seeing the movie "devil Girl From Mars"

First Science fiction writer to receive a McArthur "Genius" award

had a job as a potato chip inspector

Born to maid and a shoeshine man

Father died when she was very young

Mom was a widow

studied anthropology

6ft tall

winner of the Nebula award for best science fiction novel

Died in Washington

didn't make New York times best seller list until 2020

First African American women to win widespread recognition writing science fiction

took creative writing classes at Pasadena city College

First book was Patternmaster in 1976

Her papers are held in the research collection of Huntington library in southern California

Was very shy and got bullied when she was young

At age 10 got a typewriter and wrote only using two fingers

Won first Hugo award in 1985 for the short story "Speech Sounds"

Had Junior High science teacher type her first manuscript

in 1965 won a college wide short story contest and worn 15$

Went to the Amazon to look at Biological diversity in order to better incorporate it in her work

wrote a book called "Kindred" that taught about the effects of slavery

began to write the trickster than got overwhelmed and depressed so instead began to write a science fiction vampire novel

Never drove a car

Her archive at the Huntington is accessed 15 times per week, and is one of the most actively researched archived

in 2005 she was inducted into Chicago state University International Black writers hall of fame

Never got married

Mother was religious but Butler never became religious