WRITER

Octavia E. Butler

1947 - 2006

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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octavia E. Butler has received more than 3,900,169 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Octavia E. Butler is the 3,473rd most popular writer (up from 3,579th in 2019), the 4,445th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,740th in 2019) and the 369th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Wild seed
Fiction in English, Fiction, Sex role
1980
Mind of my mind
Fiction in English, American Science fiction
this book is about the inner workings of a black woman born in 1947. her name is octavia e. butler and she is a beautiful strong woman i love her very much just like all ebonys
1977
Xenogenesis
Genetic engineering, Fiction
1987
Adulthood rites
Genetic engineering, Fiction
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in the first book. Now, the Oankali have established some colonies on Earth, where they live and breed with humans. Other villages are populated by human resisters, who refuse to interact or breed with the Oankali but are frustrated because they can no longer reproduce on their own and feel they have no future. Akin, a boy "construct" born with mixed human and Oankali DNA, confronts these tensions between the two species and grapples with his own identity.
1988
Dawn
Genetic engineering, Fiction, Genetisch materiaal
aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26
1987
Parable of the sower
Fiction, Twenty-first century, African Americans
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.
1993

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Octavia E. Butler ranks 3,473 out of 7,302. Before her are Merab Kostava, Yu Kil-chun, Castor of Rhodes, Olena Pchilka, Johannes Ewald, and Arnošt Lustig. After her are Alain Chartier, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Solomon Alkabetz, Bat Ye'or, Misuzu Kaneko, and Moritz Steinschneider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Octavia E. Butler ranks 324. Before her are Tim Matheson, Kiki Dee, Robert M. Parker Jr., Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Maria del Mar Bonet, and Elena Belova. After her are Horst Blankenburg, Anny Duperey, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Betty Buckley, Giancarlo Minardi, and Julien Clerc. Among people deceased in 2006, Octavia E. Butler ranks 180. Before her are Andreas Katsulas, Peter Norman, Galina Ustvolskaya, Vilgot Sjöman, Hugh Thompson Jr., and Mohammad Yunus Khalis. After her are Daniel Schmid, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jurij Brězan, Leon Niemczyk, Akira Ifukube, and Kent Andersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Octavia E. Butler ranks 4,445 out of 20,380. Before her are Diahann Carroll (1935), Kevin McCarthy (1965), Steve Zahn (1967), David Chase (1945), Tom Brady (1977), and Barry Sonnenfeld (1953). After her are Peter Krause (1965), Charley Patton (1891), Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), June Squibb (1929), Alvin Ailey (1931), and Dennis Franz (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Octavia E. Butler ranks 369. Before her are Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Peter Straub (1943), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Bell hooks (1952), and H.D. (1886). After her are Gary Snyder (1930), Jonathan Littell (1967), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Dennis Lehane (1965), Adrienne Rich (1929), and Sara Teasdale (1884).

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