In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...
"Parable of the Sower… isn't prophecy, I hope," she told an interviewer back in 2000. "The society I portray in [this] book is pretty ... fires to communities to cover up their crimes, get ...
Her grave is marked by a quote from her celebrated novel Parable of the Sower: “All that you touch ... “It’s hard not to read the books and think, ‘How did she know?’” ...