Octavia E. Butler, considered the first black woman to gain national prominence as a science fiction writer, has died, a close friend said Sunday. She was 58.
Butler fell and struck her head on the cobbled walkway outside her home, said Leslie Howle, a longtime friend and employee at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.
The writer, who suffered from high blood pressure and heart trouble and could only take a few steps without stopping for breath, was found outside her home in the north Seattle suburb of Lake Forest Park and died Friday, Howle said. (read more)
Make sure you check out these books by her: 
First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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First, that is for damn sure not Bey’s hair. At times I wonder who puts her outfits together. Everyone else looks cute. Kimora is lookin’ FIERCE.
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