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exterra

Death of a Legendary Author

Feb 26, 2006 22:38

I remember being so pleased to hear that she had relocated from Los Angeles to Seattle, and have always meant to attend one of her readings or workshops, but sadly, I never got around to it. She is one of my favorite authors. I am so sad that she died ( Read more... )

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bwb_archive February 27 2006, 06:55:43 UTC

Oh man. That's so very sad. What an amazing presence in our world she was.

beckyb February 27 2006, 15:04:21 UTC

Thanks much for posting this. I'm going to 1) read Kindred, and 2) include her on my reading list for my students.

lapartera February 27 2006, 15:46:38 UTC

This really really bad news. An awesome writer -- and now we won't be getting any more of her books. What a loss.

Didn't know she had a new one out, though. I'll go get it immediately.

exterra February 27 2006, 17:36:27 UTC

Yes, I'm looking forward to reading her new one... at our local bookstore the other day the clerk checking me out told me about it (when she saw me getting another Octavia Butler book) and told me she'd just had a reading at that store weeks back, how sorry I am to have missed it!

Another Obit from the PI dtto February 27 2006, 22:09:47 UTC

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html

Monday, February 27, 2006

By JOHN MARSHALL
P-I BOOK CRITIC

Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she was a child, her mother was a maid who brought her along on jobs, yet Octavia Butler rose from these humble beginnings to become one of the country's leading writers - a female African American pioneer in the white, male domain of science fiction.

Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she was 6 feet tall by age 15) and in accomplishment.

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