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November 20, 2017

George A.V. Dunning Lecture, “Telling My Stories: The pioneering fiction of Octavia E. Butler,” Pasadena Museum of History (Thursday, March 29, 2018)

“Telling My Stories: The pioneering fiction of Octavia E. Butler”
Natalie Russell, Assistant Curator of Literary Collections, Huntington Library

Pasadena Museum of History
March 29, 2018
6:30pm

Octavia E. Butler was the first female African-American writer to make science fiction her career. A shy, only child from Pasadena, California, she dreamed of ordinary people in extraordinary worlds, and extraordinary people in ordinary worlds, and put them on the page. Her stories brought the voice of women of color to a genre traditionally dominated by white men. That powerful voice tackled issues, not just about race, but themes that continue to resonate with a wide audience: power, identity, gender, class, the environment, and what it means to be human.

Ticket information is available at https://pasadenahistory.org/events-overview/events-calendar/octavia-butler/

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