Octavia Butler, a mother of Afro-Futurism, was the first African-American woman to gain widespread recognition for her science fiction writing. An exhibition at the Huntington Library—the home of her archive—looks at the work,  life, and times of this groundbreaking literary figure through an examination of her journals, letters, photographs, drafts, and first editions.

OCTAVIA BUTLER: TELLING MY STORIES, through August 7.

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California.

See:

huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=23146

npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/07/10/535879364/octavia-butler-writing-herself-into-the-story

io9.gizmodo.com/the-kindred-graphic-novel-should-be-everyone-s-introduc-1791135453