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Le Guin was born Oct. 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California, United States.
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost. Includes: -Vaster Than Empires and More Slow -Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight -Hernes -The Matter of Seggri -Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea -Forgiveness Day -A Man of the People -A Woman's Liberation -Old Music and the Slave Women -The Finder -On the High Marsh -Dragonfly -Paradises Lost This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.
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Le Guin was born Oct. 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California, United States.
She studied literature and languages at Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951. Soon after, Le Guin began her Ph. D. work and won a Fulbright grant to continue her studies in France from 1953 to 1954.
She began her career in science fiction in 1963. Her other novels include The Lathe of Heaven (1971), about a man whose dreams can change the world; The Word for World Is Forest (1976); and The Beginning Place (1980). Her short story collections include The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975), Orsinian Tales (1976), and The Compass Rose (1982). A collection of essays, The Languages of the Night, appeared in 1979.
Set on an ice age planet named Winter, it is the fourth novel in a series with a common interstellar background. On the same distinguished level is The Dispossessed (1974), about a scientist who travels from his native planet to its moon, seeking to promote his career. The story concerns a clash of values between the two societies, one capitalist, the other anarchist. Also notable is her fantasy trilogy A Wizard of Earthsea (1967), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and The Farthest Shore (1972), which describes the development of a wizard and the obstacles he encounters as he achieves fame and power.
In later years, Le Guin worked in film and audio. She contributed to The Lathe of Heaven, a 1979 PBS film based on her novel of the same name. In 1985 she collaborated with avant-garde composer David Bedford on the libretto of Rigel 9, a space opera. In December 2009, Le Guin resigned from the Authors Guild in protest over its endorsement of Google's book digitization project.
(A classic science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, one...)
(Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American l...)
Le Guin has been credited with helping to popularize anarchism. Indeed her works were influential in developing a new anarchist way of thinking; a postmodern way that is more adaptable and looks at/addresses a broader range of concerns.
In 1953, while traveling to France, Le Guin met her future husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They married later that year in Paris.