The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science ...
Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for ... Even today, says Gerry Canavan, author of a 2016 Butler biography, “It just feels like … she predicts the future.” Born an only child in ...