The late award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, who died in 2006, will have her research papers, including a draft of her novel “Kindred,” live on. According to the New York Times, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, will house “39 cartoons and eight-file cabinet drawers including manuscripts, correspondence, school papers, notebooks, photographs and other materials.” The papers will be available next year.–CM
Novelist's Octavia Butler's Bequeathed Papers Find a Home
The late award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, who
died in 2006, will have her research papers, including a draft of her
novel "Kindred," live on. According to the New York Times, the
Huntington Library in San Marino, California, will house "39 cartoons
and eight-file cabinet drawers including manuscripts, correspondence,
school papers, notebooks, photographs and other materials." The papers
will be available next year.--CM