Award-winning essayist, journalist, and nonfiction author Lynell George gives us a glimpse into the esteemed writer Octavia E. Butler’s origins of becoming one. Going into her personal confides of her ...

Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the adaptation will be released Tuesday by Abrams ComicsArts.

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 ...

For readers of this journal, Octavia ... Ms. Butler. A private person, she prefers writing in the predawn hours and by eight AM is frequently out of the house on the day's business. She has other ...

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 40,000 acres have burned ... 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn ...

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled ... She also jotted down ideas while crisscrossing Los Angeles on public buses, using the people ...

Set in a near-future Los Angeles devastated by societal collapse ... An adaptation of the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed science fiction odyssey.

Influential writer Octavia Butler's ... novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's "Paralbe of the Talents" at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena. (Jevon Phillips / Los Angeles Times) Butler's "Parable ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler's literary legend may spread ... This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.