Pasadena (USA), 1947 - Lake Forest Park (USA), 2006

The "great science fiction lady" received her associate professor of arts degree in 1968 at Pasadena Community College, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles. During 1969 and 1970, he studied at the Screenwriter’s Guild Open Door Program and at the Clarion Science Writers ’Workshop, where he attended class with science fiction teacher Harlan Ellison. His first story, "Crossover," was published in the 1971 Clarion anthology. Patternmaster, his first novel and the first title in the five-volume Patternist series, was published in 1976, followed by Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor. (1978), Wild Seed (1980), which won the James Tiptree Award, and Clay's Ark (1984). With the publication of Kinship in 1979, Butler managed to remain a full-time writer. He won the Hugo Prize in 1984 for his short story "Speech Sounds", and in 1985 his novel Son of Blood won a Hugo Prize, a Nebula Prize, the Locus Prize and the Prize for the Best Science Fiction Chronicle Novel. She is also the author of other series such as the Xenogenesis trilogy, as well as a collection of short stories: Son of Blood and other stories (1995). The Parable of the Sower (1993), the first part of his Parables series, was a finalist for the Nebula Prize and also the New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the prestigious Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation.