The Portland author elevated her genres to high literature and amplified women's voices while also advocating for libraries and literary organizations.

American author Ursula K. Le Guin has died at age 88. She was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, known primarily for her science fiction and fantasy novels and stories.

A rare glimpse into Le Guin's private life as a writing group collaborator, friend and poet Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer ...

Originally published as “ Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds ” in the Winter 2019 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The late Ursula K. Le Guin, who made Portland her home for decades, is remembered in an "American Masters" documentary that airs Sunday afternoon on OPB.

Ursula K. Le Guin AUTHOR Oct 21, 1929 - Jan 22, 2018 KNOWN FOR Her first major breakthrough came with the young adult novel “A Wizard of Earthsea,” set in a magical archipelago inhabited by ...

For the first time ever, a writer has been awarded the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. This award seeks to honor Le Guin's legacy by looking for storytellers who are "realists of a larger ...

Le Guin has now released a new book of essays, titled Words Are My Matter, which picks up where she left off at the National Book Foundation ceremony. She is now 87, and I see no signs of mellowness.

Ursula K. Le Guin was her own toughest (and best) critic In “The Language of the Night,” a recently reissued classic, she engages science fiction and fantasy — including her novels — with ...

Literary Arts, a community nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon, announced Monday that Le Guin's family had donated their three-story house for what will become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency.