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"Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories" Essay

Literature

2017

Butler donated her vast archive of writings, photographs and documents to the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. As recounted in this essay by Natalie Russell, curator of Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories, these papers include Butler’s powerful self-affirmations captured on the backs of notebooks and drafts.