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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.

When I finally got the brilliant and renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin all to myself on a stage in Portland, some years ago, I asked her the question I’d always been longing to ask: “Where do ...

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

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 ...

The best books by Ursula K. Le Guin include The Wizard of Earthsea, The Dispossessed, and The Left Hand of Darkness.

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 ...

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin begins with Le Guin’s early struggle to get published in the overwhelmingly male and realism-dominated climate of the early 1960s.