When Octavia Butler published ... Growing up, Butler was shy and dyslexic, spending many of her hours at the local library. When she began writing at the age of seven, she made up stories about ...

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia ... Butler’s archives at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. In 2022, we asked George to write ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's ...

Octavia Butler grew up in Pasadena with ... To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” We write this days before the second inauguration of Donald Trump, who ...

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles ...

ALTADENA, Calif. -- Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...

Growing up, Butler was shy and dyslexic, spending many of her hours at the local library. When she began writing at the age ... and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf, a Black-owned ...