LA’s Getty Foundation is funding the documentation of the historic neighborhood as developers rush to buy up burned lots.

After one in four students lost their homes or were displaced by the Eaton fire, their school held them together.

Her papers are in the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington Library. The Eaton fire came close to Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery, where Butler is buried.

Altadena resident Nikki High opened Octavia’s Bookshelf in February 2023, inspired by the author. “People miss the blueprint of hope [Butler] wrote in Parable of the Sower.” ...

The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once called home—grapples with recovery challenges that eerily echo ...

Books & Comics Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire Altadena, California was the home of the esteemed Afrofuturism pioneer who wrote Parable of the Sower.

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire ...