Ursula K. Le Guin

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American author of more than twenty novels (some intended for young adults), a dozen volumes of poetry, many collections of stories and essays, thirteen children's books, five translations, and a how-to book about writing. UKLG was admired internationally for her game-changing contributions to the predominantly masculine genre of science fiction. Her book publication spans 1966 to 2017.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
She was immensely prolific and often reprinted and re-issued, so that her bibliography is intricate and complex.
Colour photo of Ursula K. Le Guin, standing in a bookshop, apparently reading from papers in her hand, resting the other hand on a table. She has short grey hair and wire-rimmed glasses, and is wearing black pants, a white shirt, and a black vest.

Milestones

20 October 1919

Ursula Kroeber, later UKLG , was born in Berkeley, California, the youngest of four children, and the only girl. The date of her birth is St Ursula's day.
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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November 1968

With A Wizard of Earthsea (still her best-loved book) UKLG launched (or transferred and elaborated from a handful of short stories) the world of Earthsea, a large and complex archipelago of islands which differ in social and political systems.
She confessed to calling three of the smaller islands by the names she had for her children as babies.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night. Putnam.
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Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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Levin, Jeffrey H., and Ursula K. Le Guin. “Bibliographic Checklist of the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin”. The Language of the Night, pp. 237-70.
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March 1969

Another Hainish novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, began from a mental image that came to UKLG , of two people pulling a sled across an icy wilderness.
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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Levin, Jeffrey H., and Ursula K. Le Guin. “Bibliographic Checklist of the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin”. The Language of the Night, pp. 237-70.
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5 December 2017

UKLG 's volume of trenchant, funny, lyrical essays or blog posts, No Time to Spare. Thinking about What Matters, covered, as Margaret Atwood wrote, everything from cats to the nature of belief, to the overuse of the word fuck, to old age and sissies.
Atwood, Margaret. “Ursula K Le Guin . . . ’One of the literary greats of the 20th century’”. theguardian.com.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

22 January 2018

UKLG died at home in Portland, Oregon.
Flood, Alison, and Benjamin Lee. “Ursula K Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy author, dies aged 88”. theguardian.com.
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Biography

Birth and Family

20 October 1919

Ursula Kroeber, later UKLG , was born in Berkeley, California, the youngest of four children, and the only girl. The date of her birth is St Ursula's day.
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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