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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science fiction. [7]
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction.
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as ...
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (/ ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s / [1]) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child ...
"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. First published in the science fiction magazine Galaxy in August 1974, it was anthologized in Le Guin's 1975 collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters and in several subsequent collections.
Tehanu / t ə ˈ h ɑː n uː /, [1] initially subtitled The Last Book of Earthsea, [2] is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Atheneum in February 1990. [2] It is the fourth novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea , published almost twenty years after the first three Earthsea novels (1968–1972), and ...
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It is the fifth and final novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea. It won the annual World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was runner up for the Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel, among other nominations. [1]