Monday, February 27, 2006

Octavia Butler, 1947-2006

Octavia Butler, one of the country's leading science fiction authors, died Friday after a fall outside her home in Lake Forest Park, Seattle, WA. The African American was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant.

Read the full article at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html