Over 30 years ago, Octavia ... Butler’s grasp of science and history and her ability to foresee shifts in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written ...
Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think the ...
ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most ...
In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...
When Octavia Butler published 1993's Parable of the Sower - a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is "Make America Great ...
Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...
The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, remains intact at Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery despite nearby ...