found: Her Patternmaster, 1976.
found: Her Clay's ark, 1984:CIP title page (Octavia Butler) galley (Octavia E. Butler)
found: Parable of the sower, c1993:title page (Octavia E. Butler) jkt. (b. in Pasadena)
found: Biog. resource center (Contemporary authors), June 17, 2004(Octavia E(stelle) Butler; b. June 22, 1947, Pasadena, Calif.)
found: New York times WWW site, Mar. 1, 2006(Octavia E. Butler; b. Octavia Estelle Butler, June 22, 1947, Pasadena, Calif.; d. Friday [Feb. 24, 2006] after a fall near her home in Lake Forest Park, Wash., aged 58; internationally acclaimed science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power, and, ultimately, what it means to be human)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014(b. June 22, 1947)
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Butler, Octavia E; Octavia Estelle Butler; born June 22,1947 in Pasadena, California, United States; science fiction writer; Associate of Arts degree, Pasadena City College (1968); participated in the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (1970) which immersed her in a science fiction community and helped launch her career; relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1999; died February 24, 2006 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, United States)
