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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
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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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