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Found in

1. p1pc Butler, Octavia E. Octavia Butler papers (OCoLC)1142201453

Description

1. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver, black and white; 26 x 21 cm

Summary

1. Publicity photograph of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler at home during the early 1980s.

Subject

1. Butler, Octavia E
2. African American women authors
3. Science fiction > Women authors

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1980-1989.
2. Publicity photographs – 1980-1989.
3. Gelatin silver prints – 1980-1989.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Octavia Butler Collection

Note

1. Title taken from Octavia Butler Papers.
2. Photograph bears slight creasing on recto, and pen mark on lower edge.

Terms of use (note)

1. Image may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006, was an African American science fiction author who was a multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). Among her best known works are the short story "Bloodchild" (1984); the novels "Kindred" (1979) and "Fledgling" (2005); and three separate groups of novels called the Patternist series (1976-1984), the Xenogenesis trilogy (1987-1989) and the Parable series (1993-1998).

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Octavia Butler Papers.

Author

1. Butler, Octavia E., collector.

Title

1. Octavia Butler photograph.

Production

1. [between 1980 and 1984?]

Type of content

1. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Terms of use

1. Image may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006, was an African American science fiction author who was a multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). Among her best known works are the short story "Bloodchild" (1984); the novels "Kindred" (1979) and "Fledgling" (2005); and three separate groups of novels called the Patternist series (1976-1984), the Xenogenesis trilogy (1987-1989) and the Parable series (1993-1998).

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Octavia Butler Papers.

Local note

1. Sc MG 966

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Found in:

1. p1pc Butler, Octavia E. Octavia Butler papers (OCoLC)1142201453

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Octavia Butler Collection