Eventually, Le Guin became so identified as a feminist that the University of Oregon Libraries would in 2016 host a panel titled "Ursula K. Le Guin and the Field of Feminist Science Fiction." ...

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. Places, real ...

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin speaks at the 2014 National Book Awards, ... A child of anthropologists, Le Guin approached her worlds with the investigative eye of one encountering a culture for the first time.

When Ursula K. Le Guin died in Portland at the age of 88 in January 2018, she left behind generations of fans, admirers and authors whose own work was influenced by Le Guin’s award-winning ...

Clockwise: Ursula K. Le Guin (left), Molly Gloss, Bette Husted, Barbara Drake, Kari Easton, Noel Hanlon, Jeanette Cappella, Caroline LeGuin. Photo by Peter Koehler, Jr. It also offers a glimpse of ...

I wouldn’t be who I am or where I am without Ursula K. Le Guin. ... Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Vera, or Faith’ is a witty (and anxious) child-led tale about status in the Trump era. July 3, 2025.

Neither Ursula K. Le Guin nor I knew, but it was a question that Le Guin spent her lifetime trying to answer, and the worlds she so skillfully created in the attempt are many, varied and entrancing.

But that’s the kind of sentiment Le Guin is eager to swat away in her witty, often deeply observed collection of posts, No Time to Spare (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 215 pp., ★★★ out of four).

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.

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, the author whose science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories inspired readers of all ages, is the focus of a new documentary. Skip to Main Content.