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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 3,642,692 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Octavia E. Butler is the 3,592nd most popular writer (up from 4,158th in 2019), the 4,752nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,833rd in 2019) and the 404th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Octavia E. Butler ranks 3,592 out of 5,755. Before her are Claude Bourgelat, Friederike Mayröcker, Maurice de Guérin, Salomėja Nėris, Joe Haldeman, and Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda. After her are Esteban Echeverría, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Remmius Palaemon, Gene Wolfe, Ewald Christian von Kleist, and Antun Gustav Matoš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Octavia E. Butler ranks 325. Before her are Hristo Bonev, Leszek Balcerowicz, Kim Campbell, Geoffrey Hinton, Horst Blankenburg, and Stephen Collins. After her are Roy Raymond, Joseph Daul, Theo de Jong, Nobuo Kawakami, Wenche Myhre, and Samuel Schmid. Among people deceased in 2006, Octavia E. Butler ranks 189. Before her are Vilgot Sjöman, Elizabeth Bolden, Andreas Katsulas, Kent Andersson, Theodore Levitt, and Akira Ifukube. After her are Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Lars Korvald, Ion Drîmbă, Arif Mardin, Jean-Louis de Rambures, and Gert Fredriksson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Octavia E. Butler ranks 4,752 out of 18,182. Before her are Samuel Jones (1880), David Chase (1945), Richard Montague (1930), Art Farmer (1928), Stephen Collins (1947), and Joe Haldeman (1943). After her are Strom Thurmond (1902), Broderick Crawford (1911), Martin Donovan (1957), Ram Dass (1931), Kevin Schwantz (1964), and Fred Gwynne (1926).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Octavia E. Butler ranks 404. Before her are Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Ralph Ellison (1914), Jonathan Littell (1967), Seymour Hersh (1937), Marta Kauffman (1956), and Joe Haldeman (1943). After her are Gene Wolfe (1931), Charles Brockden Brown (1771), Connie Willis (1945), Elaine May (1932), Rube Goldberg (1883), and George Washington Williams (1849).

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