![]() ![]() ![]() At the behest of Harlan Ellison, whom she met at the “Open Door” Workshop, she attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop in 1971, after which she sold her first two stories, one of which, “Crossover,” was published in 1971. She earned an associate’s degree from Pasadena City College and took classes at both Cal State and UCLA. An avid reader her entire life, Butler wrote her first sf story when she was about twelve years old after she watched sci-fi B-movie “The Devil Girl from Mars” and realized she could write a better story. Her family called her “Junie” but most of her friends called her Estelle. Her father died when she was a toddler and she was raised an only child by her mother and grandmother. Butler (b. 1947–d. 2006), one of the first African American science fiction (sf) authors, remains the most prominent African American women science fiction author. ![]()
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