Her novels The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home redefine the scope and style of utopian fiction. Le Guin’s first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered groundbreaking for its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. Her fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea, the first in a related group of six books and one short story, has sold millions of copies worldwide. Le Guin’s major titles have been translated into 42 languages and have remained in print, often for over half a century. Her oeuvre comprises 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories and novellas, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five collections of essays, and four volumes of translation. Le Guin died peacefully in her home in January, 2018.įew American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953 they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and had three children and four grandchildren. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. Her parents were anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. Ursula Kroeber was born in 1929 and grew up in Berkeley, California. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation.
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