Can Seattle Do for August Wilson What Lake Forest Park Did for Octavia Butler?
Shortly after 10 am on Saturday, July 29, Lake Forest Park unveiled its honorary street for Octavia Butler, a writer who spent the last seven years of her life in the city between Kenmore and Seattle's Lake City. Butler moved here from Southern California in 1999. She bought a simple but cozy-looking house at the top of a hill and near three things she could not live without: a nearby bus stop, a nearby bookstore,...