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Ahead of Mother’s Day, read up on the women who provided support, inspiration, words of wisdom and sometimes tough love to some of your favorite novelists, as seen in Mental Floss’s new book,
The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists, out May 25.
1. Octavia Butler
Author Octavia Butler was raised primarily by her grandmother and widowed mother (also named Octavia), who worked as a maid. When Butler was in preschool, the elder Octavia brought her along to work, and her experiences were one of the inspirations for
Kindred. “I didn t like seeing her go through back doors,” the author said in an interview with