Lynell George
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Lynell George is an award-winning Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist and author. Her work explores social issues and human behavior as well as urban histories, visual art, music and literature. A former Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly staff writer, her work has appeared in Alta Journal, Boom: A Journal of California, Preservation, Smithsonian, Oxford American, KCET | Artbound, KPCC | The Frame, among other publications. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels" (Verso), "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame" (Angel City Press) and her most recent — "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler" (Angel City Press), published in 2020, was a 2021 Hugo Award Finalist. Photo credit: Noé Montes
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