Octavia Butler is the author of the book, Kindred. During her interview, she stated that she has a vivid imagination growing up as a strange kid and most of time, alone. Being a writer in the modern era, Butler aims to not just be a black woman science fiction writer, but being a writer that is not set back to any limitation. When writing the book, Kindred, Butler aims to wrote herself into the story and explore in-depth to the place where the scene is set up, Maryland. It is considered that this book is one of the accomplishment that she made that is most associated with her. The writing style she has, add up the genuine scene set up about the slavery during the 1800s.