Octavia E. Butler (Photo by Malcolm Ali/WireImage) By Rayna Reid Rayford· Updated January 2, 2023
Today is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Estelle Butler.
Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy and her grandmother Estella, Butler grew up extremely shy and turned to books and reading for comfort.
Butler would go on to become a
