Butler was raised by her mother who worked as a maid and her grandmother. Butler remembered accompanying her mother to work at wealthy homes in Pasadena and having to enter through the back door. Her mother, who only had three years of formal schooling, worked incredibly hard to make sure Butler had more opportunities and a better education than she had. At school, she was a shy and lonely student who struggled with dyslexia. The school library was her second home. She had an endless hunger for stories and frequently made up her own while sitting on her grandmother’s porch. By the age of ten she could be found carrying around a large notebook, writing down stories whenever she got a free moment. When she was 13 years, she submitted her first story for publication. She used to get up at two A.M. every morning to write and went on to do a series of odd jobs for livelihood. She once told PBS that her life motto was, “Do the thing that you love, and do it as well as you possibly can and be persistent about it.” Since 2008, Butler’s annotations, notes, research materials, and drafts of novels have been housed at the Huntington Library in California. You may visit this link explore the world of Octavia Estelle Butler
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