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American science fiction author who was the first Black woman to gain critical and commercial success in the genre. Her work — including the 'Kindred' (1979) novel about a modern Black woman transported to the antebellum South, the Parable series (1993-1998) predicting authoritarian populism, and the Patternist series — explored race, gender, power, and human adaptability with unflinching clarity. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship. Her prophetic fiction has gained enormous renewed relevance in the 2020s.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica