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Ursula K. Le Guin

Born

in Berkeley, California, The United States

October 21, 1929

Died

January 22, 2018

Website

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Nonfiction

Influences

J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Phil ...more

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Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi ...more

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Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin��s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin

How It Seems To Me
By Ursula K. Le Guin, read by Neil Gaiman

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s books

Average rating: 4.09 · 1,657,474 ratings · 132,755 reviews · 1,046 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 360,463 ratings — published 1968 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 220,085 ratings — published 1969 — 301 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.26 avg rating — 150,774 ratings — published 1974 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 135,095 ratings — published 1971 — 213 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 126,303 ratings — published 1972 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lathe of Heaven 4.13 avg rating — 88,313 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) 4.06 avg rating — 59,277 ratings — published 1990 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 4.37 avg rating — 52,969 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Word for World Is Forest 4.07 avg rating — 43,603 ratings — published 1972 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) 4.20 avg rating — 32,824 ratings — published 2001 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Earthsea Cycle (6 books)
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4.16 avg rating — 20,392 ratings

About Writing (4 books)
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4.25 avg rating — 10,662 ratings

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