Ursula K. Le Guin




Ursula K. Le Guin

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born October 21, 1929
gender female
place of birth Berkeley, California, United States
website http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html
genre Science Fiction & Fantasy

about this author

Le Guin was born and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. Her father was granted the first Ph.D. in Anthropology in the United States in 1901 (Columbia University). She became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected).

She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College in 1951, and M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They were married in 1953.

Her earliest writings (little published at the time, but some appeared in adapted form much later in...more

books by Ursula K. Le Guin

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avg rating: 3.96 | 16438 ratings | 109 distinct works
A Wizard of Earthsea A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 4.01 — 2232 ratings — published 1968
37 editions
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The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 4.04 — 1404 ratings — published 1969
29 editions
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous... The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Mass Market Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 4.14 — 1036 ratings — published 1974
30 editions
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The Lathe of Heaven The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 4.03 — 676 ratings — published 1971
14 editions
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Tales from Earthsea Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 3.91 — 478 ratings — published 2003
8 editions
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The Other Wind The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 3.95 — 454 ratings — published 2003
12 editions
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Tehanu Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 3.75 — 278 ratings — published 2004
17 editions
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Gifts Gifts (Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 3.48 — 227 ratings — published 2006
8 editions
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The Telling The Telling (Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 3.90 — 200 ratings — published 2000
10 editions
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Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Boo... Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way (Paperback)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
avg rating 4.32 — 168 ratings — published 1998
3 editions
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quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
Ursula K. Le Guin (The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas)
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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