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	Ursula K. Le Guin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Le Guin is known for her ability to create believable worlds populated by strongly sympathetic characters (regardless of whether they are technically 'human').
		Le Guin is a prolific author and has published many works that are not listed here.
		Le Guin has also written fiction set much closer to home; many of her short stories are set in our world in the present or the near future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ursula_Le_Guin (927 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Le Guin was born and raised in Berkeley, California.
		Le Guin is known for her ability to create believable worlds populated by strongly sympathetic characters (regardless of whether they are technically 'human').
		A number of Le Guin's science fiction works, including her award-winning novels The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, are set in a future, post-Imperial galactic civilization governed by a co-operative body known as the Ekumen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Novels_of_the_Ekumen (1442 words)

	Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber on Encyclopedia.com
		Herons, ringtrees, and mud: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Eye of the Heron.(Critical Essay)
		Cultural anthropology and rituals of exchange in Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Earthsea.'
		A 'Telling' story; Ursula K. Le Guin works out her worries in new science fiction novel.(Arts and Lifestyle)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LeG1uin-U1.asp (349 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Housewives in Space
		Le Guin's masterpiece is a strange post-modern novel set in the dreamtime of the long gone future, the story of a tribal woman and her tribe, gentle Luddites resisting the return of technology to their Kesh Valley home.
		Le Guin has identified Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching as one of the great permanent influences on her life and work, and it is easy to see, as far back as the wisdom Ged imparts to Arren who will be king, in The Farthest Shore, that this is so.
		It would be interesting to compare Le Guin's book with the only other book of similar stature, Walter Miller's cult classic, A Canticle for Leibowitz.
	www.dancingbadger.com /4leguin.htm (1817 words)

	Le Guin, Ursula K. - MSN Encarta
		Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, born in 1929, American fantasy and science-fiction writer.
		Ursula Kroeber was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up immersed in legends and myths under the influence of her father, an anthropologist, and her mother, a children's author.
		Le Guin is also well known for her books for children and young adults.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561612/Le_Guin_Ursula_K.html (309 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929, the daughter of a writer and an anthropologist.
		Le Guin's non-series novels, such as The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and Always Coming Home (1985), are of major significance also, but as her recent work is largely pre-occupied with matters of Ekumen and Earthsea, it is there that the emphasis of this interview naturally falls.
		Le Guin wears many creative hats: as poet, essayist, translator, writer for young children, illustrator, mainstream literary author; but it is surely in her Fantasy and SF that her especial genius resides.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/ul123.htm (3598 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Queen of Quinkdom
		Le Guin's preoccupations are not divided into two strictly separate packages, of course: both of her worlds are scrupulously attentive to the uses and misuses of language; both have their characters fret over social gaffes and get snarled up in foreign customs; both worry about death.
		Le Guin was accused of wanting everyone to be an androgyne and of predicting that in the future they would be; conversely, of being anti-feminist because she'd used the pronoun "he" to denote persons not in "kemmer"—the sexual phase.
		Le Guin knows the tricks of the trade, and also the pitfalls: her Mobiles are mistrusted and misled while they are in the field, just as real anthropologists have been.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15677 (3607 words)

	Author Profile: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California.
		Le Guin is a prolific writer, but she is still best known for a series she started writing in the '60s.
		Le Guin may deal in science fiction and fantasy, but her books are not consumed by technical language and sophisticated gadgetry.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-leguin-ursula.asp (1145 words)

	Bookreporter.com - TEHANU: (Earthsea Tetrology #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin
		Le Guin may be working with the same characters, but her attitude towards them and Earthsea has become more complicated.
		Le Guin uses Tenar's encounters with men and women to make a feminist critique of Earthsea and its sexist traditions.
		In TEHANU, Le Guin looks back on the civilization she created in the first three novels of the series and finds it frustrating and deeply flawed.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0553288733.asp (530 words)

	The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin - HarperAcademic
		This convention of science fiction writers who weave tales of perfect societies, edged with traces of evil possibility, is simultaneously wrought by Ursula K. Le Guin into stories of deep internal exploration as well.
		Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, to writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber.
		Le Guin's writing career began with the publication of "April in Paris," in Fantastic (1962), and grew to include numerous works of both poetry and prose in various genres, including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, children's books, young adult books, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts for performance or recording.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/instructors_guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060512741 (2066 words)

	GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ Tributes Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula Le Guin is the most influential writers of a kind of fantasy and SF that is both lyrical, thoughtful and motivated by a strong social conscience; fantasy which does not leave the heart and mind locked outside the covers of the book.
		Le Guin was getting to the point where she knew her own mind as a writer, so:
		They think that The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien’s answer to the Problem of Evil (which as I remember it is something like, ‘if God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow Evil to exist?’)
	greenbooks.theonering.net /tributes/files/ursula_leguin.html (681 words)

	Review of the SF of Ursula K. Le Guin
		The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, Grafton, 1974, 319 pp.
		Le Guin explains why she would alter existing material in her "Preface to the 1989 Edition." Pronouns are changed to the non-gendered throughout, and Le Guin adds extensive comments to what turned out to be a controversial essay on The Left Hand of Darkness.
		This discussion across time, between Le Guin of the 1970s and the 1980s, is part of what I like about this revised edition.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/leguin.htm (4876 words)

	Salon.com People Ursula K. Le Guin
		Le Guin's mother, Theodora, trained as a psychologist and wrote the bestselling biography "Ishi in Two Worlds," as well as a number of children's works.
		Le Guin and her husband have lived in the same house in Portland, Ore., for 40 years.
		Le Guin admits she and her brother devoured the pulp science fiction magazines of the '30s and '40s.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin (1145 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. Le Guin has written poetry and fiction all of her life.
		The Bones of the Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin [Science Fiction/Fantasy]
		For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/UrsulaKLeGuineBooks.htm (1160 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin: 2003 SFWA Grand Master
		The very first time I ever visited the Le Guins, I noticed that while Ursula and Charles were definitely the parents, and Elisabeth, Caroline, and Theo were the children, the parents always spoke to the children as fellow human beings.
		It is my honor to announce that Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, and the Earthsea tales, has been recognized as a SFWA Grand Master.
		Le Guin's career spans forty years, beginning with the publication of "April in Paris," in Fantastic (1962), and includes seventeen novels and numerous shorter works, as well as many poems and critical essays.
	www.sfwa.org /awards/2003/ukl-gm.html (1058 words)

	Amazon.com: A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1): Books: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist, and Theodora Kroeber, a psychologist and writer.
		Ursula K. LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" comes from a different place then the other two fantasists with whom her Earthsea trilogy is so often compared.
		Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553262505?v=glance (2861 words)

	ALA 2004 Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. Le Guin is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her lifetime contribution to young adult readers. The award was announced Monday, January 12, during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in San Diego.
		Le Guin lives in Portland, Ore., where she continues to write and speak out for the political and artistic freedom all writers and readers hope to enjoy.
		Le Guin takes on issues arising from the effort to live humanely in the natural world, exploring the tension between individuality and social norms," said Award Committee Chair Francisca Goldsmith. "In the Earthsea fantasy series, young protagonists mature not only physically, but also spiritually, as Ms.
	www.ala.org /ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/maeprevious/04ursula.htm (381 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Le Guin, Ursula K
		Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K Le Guin and the Critics by Donna R White, 1999.
		'I follow where the story takes me...' SF and fantasy author Ursula Le Guin answered readers' questions about anarchism, utopias, Harry Potter, her favourite planets and the best Dr Who
		Le Guin has identified Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, with its principle of interdependence and ordered wholeness, as one of the great influences on her life and work (read The Telling).
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-208,00.html (517 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Ursula Le Guin Q&A
		Ursula K Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven is a taoist novel, not a utopian or dystopian one.
		Ursula Le Guin's books include A Wizard of Earthsea, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness and many others.
		Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books?
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1144428,00.html (4059 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea
		Ursula Le Guin admits in the foreword to Tales From Earthsea that she once thought she was done chronicling that particular world.
		In the introduction to Tales, Le Guin says she once thought she had finished her stories of Earthsea, that she'd caught up to "now" and had no more to say.
		There's a history of Earthsea, including the events Le Guin has already chronicled, and a sort of traveler's guide to the different lands.
	www.rambles.net /leguin_talesfrom.html (749 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Le Guin: Honestly, I put that on because I knew once I put out a fourth one people would say, "Oh, well, you're going on, and this is going to be a whole series, isn't it," and I truly believed that I'd finished the story.
		Le Guin: I have no real objection to marketing and shelving by genre, because people who read a certain type of book want to be able to find it.
		Le Guin: "The Matter of Seggri" is kind of like a boiled-down novel.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue189/interview.html (2598 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, the daughter of
		Newsweek called Le Guin’s writing “splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative,” declaring, “she wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen.” Le Guin’s extensive body of work includes The Lathe of Heaven (1971), The Dispossessed (1974), Always Coming Home (1985), Worlds of Exile and Illusion (1996), and Sixty Odd: New Poems (1999).
		Author of forty books, Le Guin is revered by readers and critics in almost every genre, including science fiction, fantasy, poetry, children& books, and literary criticism.
	www.lectures.org /leguin.html (993 words)

	Le Guin's World - Biography
		I don't think Le Guin intended us to read her stories as anything more than what they are.
		Somebody thought Le Guin's books were "Boring - they're philosophy disguised as science fiction."
		Ursula Kroeber (that's what the "K" in her name stands for) was born on October 21, 1929.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/bio.html (401 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Le Guin has said she feels this is the least complete of the trilogy, as it deals with death, which is difficult to speak about from personal experience.
		These stories are Le Guin at her most poetic and original, with tales that may or may not brush the traditional lines of Science Fiction, but reach beyond those lines to break from ordinary life much more than any space opera ever did.
		Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy is well known as a classic of 'young adult' literature, and the original three books certainly hold appeal for readers of many ages.
	tatooine.fortunecity.com /leguin/405/pz/ursulal.html (2279 words)

	Ursula,K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 into an academic household - her father, A. Kroeber, was an eminent anthropologist, while her mother, Theodora Kroeber, was a writer.
		For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity and moral vision; creating a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters: Here, in The Birthday of the World, are eight brilliant short works, including the original novella Paradises Lost, which probe the essence of humanity.
		Six of the are set in Le Guin’s world of the Ekumen- `my pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows’ as Le Guin describes it; which was made famous in the multi-award-winning classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/ursulakleguin.html (1485 words)

	Amazon.com: Lathe of Heaven: Books: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Ursula K. LeGuin is one of the towering figures in Science Fiction, indeed in all of literature, and this is her finest novel; a brilliant cautionary tale to rival Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
		Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers.
		by Ursula K. Le Guin "Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss..." (more)
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380791854?v=glance (1865 words)

	Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin, fantasy books
		greenmanreview - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Trilogy
		Le Guin's Earthsea fantasy books are A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1970), The Farthest Shore (1972), Tehanu (1990), Tales from Earthsea (collection of 5 stories, 2001), and The Other Wind (2001).
		Many of Le Guin's early works are science fiction set in the Hainish universe, where descendants of people from the planet Hain inhabit the Galaxy.
	members.aol.com /misuly/leguin.htm (1192 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Earthsea Quartet (Puffin Books): Books
		Le Guin is the daughter of anthropologists and through all her fiction there is a deep, ingrained understanding of societies work and how they are built and evolve (or disintegrate).
		BUT that's for the grown ups, what really matters is that underneath all her incisive intelligence Ursula Le Guin tells a gripping, exciting and devastating series of stories that come at one in a rush of tight telling and delicately realised plots.
		Unfortunately, Le Guin's philosophical interests had shifted quite dramatically in the meantime, and the fourth book doesn't sit too well alongside the others.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140348034 (1123 words)

	Bookreporter.com - TALES FROM EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin
		Bookreporter.com - TALES FROM EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin
		Le Guin's Earthsea books (and many of her other novels) play out in a culture of their own --- there is no Oz-like transition from Kansas to fairyland --- and these stories belong to the realm of legend, myth, and song.
		Like J. Tolkien and C. Lewis, Le Guin is a genius at creating an entire world that is utterly plausible and authentic; she has even drawn maps of Earthsea.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0151005613.asp (627 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
		Ursula was born on the 21st of October 1929 in Berkeley California, where she grew up.
		Tolkien's world has virtually no ethnographic detail, while Le Guin's has no history.
		She met and married Charles A. Le Guin (pronounced Luh Gwinn) while they were both on Fulbright scholarships in France.
	www.greenmanreview.com /alwayscominghome.html (743 words)

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