![]() Subsequent editions have rectified this erasure. Michelle Green notes that, although Dawn "clearly identifies its heroine, Lilith Iyapo, as a muscular black woman in her late twenties, the cover depicts a slender white girl apprehensively unwrapping what looks like a blanket from the body of a naked white woman" (p. Her work "creates powerful images of black women in a genre in which and from which they have traditionally been marginalized and excluded" (Boutler, p. Butler was the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship. This is the first novel in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, each of which was nominated for a Locus award. ![]() First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. ![]()
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