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  Ursula LeGuin - A Wizard of Earthsea
LeGuin was born October 21, 1929, the fourth child and only daughter of Alfred Kroeber, a noted anthropologist, and Theodora Kroeber, a psychologist and writer who collected Native American folktales and wrote the biography of a primitive individual plunged into the modern world.
LeGuin then began working on a Ph.D. but met her husband (Charles A. LeGuin) on a trip to France in 1953 and married him that December.
Ursula LeGuin works not with a theology but with an ecology, a cosmology, a reverence for the universe as a self-regulating structure.
www.northern.edu /hastingw/ukleguin.html   (1396 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin, Gifts
Gifts is Ursula K. LeGuin's story of Orrec and Gry and how they learn to deal with their birthrights, and to find gifts that they might not have been looking for.
LeGuin certainly needs no introduction from me, save to note that I have been an enthusiastic reader of her fantasy and science fiction for years.
LeGuin is a subtle and powerful writer, and that, to be sure, comes through in full measure.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_leguin_gifts.html   (760 words)

  
 Printed Matter -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- Page
Ursula K. LeGuin is the prolific high priestess of science fiction.
LeGuin, 67, was born in Berkeley, the daughter of two anthropologists.
LeGuin is fascinated by the problems human beings have living in societies.
test.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/1997/leguin1.html   (685 words)

  
 Author Profile: Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than three dozen books.
Ursula K. Le Guin's impressive body of work consists of six volumes of poetry, twenty novels, over a hundred short stories, four collections of essays, eleven books for children and four volumes of translation.
The daughter of distinguished Cal Berkeley anthropologists, Alfred Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber, Ursula K. Le Guin was always surrounded by classical texts on eastern philosophy and ethnographic studies of other cultures.
www.teenreads.com /authors/au-leguin-ursula.asp   (2363 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore QandA session, July 2004
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author.
She has written novels, poetry, children's books and essays, and is best known for her science fiction, fantasy novels and short stories.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ursula_K_Leguin   (1492 words)

  
 URSULA K
Ursula K. LeGuin draws a sharp line between herself as a person, woman, wife and mother and herself as a writer.
LeGuin admits that her "first efforts to write science fiction were motivated by a pretty distinct wish to get published." Not having much hard-core scientific knowledge she wrote "fairy tales decked out in space suits." It paid: she got them published.
LeGuin takes her idea of harmony between the male and female principles onto a national level: her planet Gethen reflects the integration of, and the balance between, the only two nations on the planet.
www.utm.edu /~lalexand/LeGuin_interview.htm   (5476 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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www.librarything.com /author/guinursulakle   (387 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, as the daughter of Dr Alfred and Theodora Kroeber Quinn.
The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin
Tillai and Tylissos, 1979 (with Theodora K. Quinn)
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /leguin.htm   (1895 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Tombs of Atuan: Books: Ursula K Leguin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms.
Ursula Le Guin's worldbuilding was masterful in the first book, and it's no less so in "Tombs of Atuan." The decayed, corrupted, darkness-obsessed religion and culture that Tenar is raised in seems very real.
The plot follows Tenar, priestess slave of the nameless gods, who has been stripped of her name, which is restored by the wizard Ged in his quest for the other half of a mythical ring.
www.amazon.ca /Tombs-Atuan-Ursula-K-Leguin/dp/0689852037   (1816 words)

  
 Kaiju Shakedown: URSULA K. LEGUIN SPEAKS OUT ON GHIBLI EARTHSEA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
URSULA K. Ursula K. LeGuin, bless her irascible old heart, has written an open letter on her website about the Ghibli Earthsea movie.
LeGuin is a great writer, and reading her blow by blow beatdown of Ghibli is a pleasure.
When Goro was proposed as the director, LeGuin says she only said yes because Hayao Miyazaki said he would be involved, but to her it soon became apparent that he wasn't and she was told he had retired from filmmaking.
www.kaijushakedown.com /2006/08/ursula_k_leguin.html   (532 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin author page at Mostly Fiction - book review, bibliography
LeGuin's exposure to Native American legends as well as Norse mythology is evident in her writing.
Ursula LeGuin herself says in the introduction that she thought she was done with Earthsea with Tehanu, in fact, the paperback version bears the legend "The last book of Earthsea." on the cover.
Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, where she grew up.
mostlyfiction.com /scifi/leguin.htm   (2118 words)

  
 Ursula LeGuin's Magical World of Earthsea
Ursula K. LeGuin is usually labeled as a science fiction writer.
546), LeGuin manufactures a world based on two of the main principles of Taoism: 1) the theory of inactivity in which one acts only when absolutely necessary, and 2) the relativity of opposites which is the belief that opposites are interdependent, and their interdependence results in the equilibrium (Spivack, pp.
LeGuin seems to be portraying a feminist angle in questioning the traditional roles.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html   (3032 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Tehanu : The Earthsea Cycle: Books: Ursula K. LeGuin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Tombs of Atuan : The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Nebula Award for Science Fiction.
With 'Tehanu,' Ursula Le Guin makes the puzzling decision to extend the classic Earthsea trilogy into a quadrology (now since extended even further), crafting a book that is quite enjoyable, but wholly apart from the careful fabric of the original stories.
www.amazon.ca /Tehanu-Earthsea-Ursula-K-LeGuin/dp/0689845332   (2409 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin -- Recent and Upcoming Books
Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated from the rest of the civilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant physicist, risks his life by traveling to the utopian mother planet of Urras.
Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary writing primer is full of charm, wit, and opinion.
Superbly written tales by a beloved storyteller at the height of her power, this stunning collection of mainstream fiction is, in Le Guin's own words, "explorations of the mysteries of name and time and ordinary living and ordinary pain.".
www.non.com /books/LeGuin_Ursula_r.html   (1868 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, 1986
Ursula K. Le Guin gave the following address at the 1986 Bryn Mawr College Commencement.
Serendip is delighted to have Ursula K. Le Guin's permission to reproduce her address in this web format.
You are invited to read and post comments about this address in Serendip's Ursula K. Le Guin Forum.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /sci_cult/leguin   (4500 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin -- All Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ursula K. Le Guin--author of more than 80 short stories, 2 collections of essays, 3 volumes of poetry, and 16 novels--has lived on Thurman Street in Portland, Oregon, for more than 25 years.
Ursula K. Le Guin revisits her popular Hainish universe with four interconnected stories that together weave a tapestry of revolution and political turmoil.
The Phoenix: Acclaimed Science-Fiction author Ursula K. Leguin has written a moving, disturbing story about a woman caught up in the horrors of a third World War, and her confrontations with enemies without -- and within.
www.non.com /books/LeGuin_Ursula_cc.html   (5199 words)

  
 Reviews -- Books -- Tehanu, by Ursula K LeGuin
I can appreciate the effort LeGuin put into this novel, and the care and detail she puts into describing the characters and events, and it's all very believable and realistic...
When I first read the novel in my teens I was bored speechless, skimmed much of it, found the ending entirely unsatisfying, and was glad LeGuin had wrapped up Earthsea after 3 novels and thought she should not have returned to it for a 4th.
I can see why and how LeGuin wrote it, (largely to insert her born again feminist ideas and greater maturity into her old male-dominated world) and I can emphasize with her desire to show what happens to the characters in great sagas who don't go on to do anything amazing with their lives.
www.blackchampagne.com /reviews/b-tehanu.shtml   (1635 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2): Books: Ursula K. LeGuin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is the story of how Tenar came to understand that her life, all of what she had been and most of what she believed was a lie.
LeGuin makes it utterly convincing, in a spare, terse way that is stark and persuasive.
While not as detailed or as ornate as THE LORD OF THE RINGS, LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle is considered among the finest of the Sword and Sorcery classics.
www.amazon.com /Tombs-Atuan-Earthsea-Cycle-Book/dp/0689845367   (2602 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
Archaeology of the Renaissance (1975) [as by Ursula Le Guin ]
The Molsen (1975) [as by Ursula Le Guin ]
A Lament for Rheged (1975) [as by Ursula Le Guin ]
www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ursula_K._Le_Guin   (841 words)

  
 Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has won many Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (1998) by Donna R White
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000) by Harold Bloom
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Ursula_K_Le_Guin.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin and Earthsea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Some authors spend a lot of time in developing their worlds, so that they become permanent parts of a reader's memory.
Ursula K. LeGuin is the daughter of an anthropologist and a writer.
LeGuin gives readers a tale about feminist ideas and finding love not matter what the age.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fantasy_worlds/79646   (528 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Gifts (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)): English Books: Ursula K. LeGuin,Ursula K. Le Guin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
von Ursula K. LeGuin, Ursula K. Le Guin "He was lost when he came to us, and I fear the silver spoons he stole from us didn't save him when he ran away..." (mehr)
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LeGuins Phantastik zählt in Bezug auf ihre literarische Güte sicherlich zum Besten, was das Genre an Zeitgenössischem zu bieten hat.
www.amazon.de /Gifts-Ursula-K-LeGuin/dp/0152051236   (1162 words)

  
 Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin, fantasy books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-) is an important US writer of science fiction and fantasy.
The "K" in her name is for Kroeber, her maiden name.
greenmanreview - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Trilogy
members.aol.com /misuly/leguin.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Raven's Reviews: Ursula K. Le Guin
LeGuin is careful not to dehumanize anyone in these four novellas, which are almost another take on the Cetian question explored in The Dispossessed, but here she talks about the actual end of slavery and the people who still carry the memories inside of them.
Beatifully lyrical and poignantly real, this was one of the better LeGuin novels, perhaps because she is not forced to extend the plots beyond their natural boundaries.
Each novella is complete within itself but has ties to the others, mostly through places and events, or theme.
tatooine.fortunecity.com /leguin/405/pz/ursulal.html   (2279 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Telling: Books: Ursula K. LeGuin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In this book Ursula K. Le Guin creates a world where technology is the all seeing, all doing God of the people.
I think that this is one of Ursula K. LeGuin's best books and the Sutty/Pao love story is very touching...I cried....
Her mastery of the language is stronger than ever, and her ability to tackle subjects like sexuality, freedom of thought, and religion is as strong as it was on books like The Left Hand Of Darkness.
www.amazon.com /Telling-Ursula-K-LeGuin/dp/0441011233   (2368 words)

  
 Ursula K. Le Guin
"My thesis is that the main thrust and strength of Ursula K. Le Guin's writing lies in the quest for and sketching of a new, collectivist system of no longer alienated human relationships, which arise out of the absolute necessity for overcoming an intolerable ethical, cosmic, political and physical alienation."
Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
Taoist Environmentalism in the West: Ursula K. Le Guin's Transmission of Taoism
members.tripod.com /~doggo/doggleguin.html   (296 words)

  
 Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 21, 1929, have won a wide audience.
In her science fiction she examines contemporary problems by restating them in terms of other imagined worlds--for example, the possibility for perfect anarchic society, in The Dispossessed, (1974); and life in an androgynous world, in The Left Hand of Darkness, (1969).
LeGuin is also the author of a fantasy series for children, the Earthsea trilogy, and has received many awards, including the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award for juvenile fiction (1968) and the National Book Award (1973) for the children's book The Farthest Shore.
www.levity.com /corduroy/leguin.htm   (387 words)

  
 Ursula K. Leguin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ursula K. Le Guin (Modern Critical Views: Contemporary American)
Ursula K. Le Guin (Twayne's United States Authors Series ; Tusas 453)
Ursula K. Le Guin's the Left Hand of Darkness (Modern Critical Interpretations)
www.datasync.com /CuriousCatProductions/leguin.htm   (157 words)

  
 The Other Wind - Ursula K. LeGuin - Penguin Group (USA)
“LeGuin is not only one of the purest stylists writing in English, but the most transcendently truthful of writers.”—The Nation
—Reprinted from The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin by permission of Berkley, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Copyright © 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin.
This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780441011254,00.html   (1154 words)

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