Ursula K. Le Guin

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Standard Name: Le Guin, Ursula K.
Birth Name: Ursula Kroeber
Used Form: Ursula Le Guin
Pseudonym: U. K. Le Guin
Pseudonym: Mom de Plume
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death James Tiptree Jr.
They had agreed to die when they could no longer live well, but it remains uncertain whether Huntington Sheldon was ready to go. Alice had written to Ursula K. Le Guin the day before: Life...
Friends, Associates James Tiptree Jr.
The friendship between Alice Sheldon (as James Tiptree, Jr ) and Ursula K. Le Guin began with a message of admiration sent to Le Guin from JTJ about her novel The Lathe of Heaven.
Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr. St. Martin’s Press, 2006, https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405583547.
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Intertextuality and Influence James Tiptree Jr.
With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken , Coleridge , and W. H. Davies , the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness...
Literary responses James Tiptree Jr.
David Gerrold (a friend of Tiptree) found Raccoona's early stories too light, too fluffy, too delicate.Le Guin thought Raccoona in general inferior to Tiptree.
Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr. St. Martin’s Press, 2006, https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405583547.
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Literary responses James Tiptree Jr.
Houston, Houston won the year's Nebula Best Novella award. Ursula K. Le Guin later said many women were amazed, delighted, jubilant, that a man could write such a story.
Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr. St. Martin’s Press, 2006, https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405583547.
373, 404
But many other readers...
Textual Production James Tiptree Jr.
This requirement proved extremely hard to meet, both for Tiptree and for other contributors, Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin . Tiptree corresponded about it with Russ.
Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr. St. Martin’s Press, 2006, https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405583547.
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Textual Production James Tiptree Jr.
Other collections of short fiction followed. Warm Worlds and Otherwise, 1975 (in which probably the most striking story is Love is the Plan the Plan is Death), had an introduction by Robert Silverberg

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Texts

Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea. Parnassus Press, 1968.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Always Coming Home. Harper and Row, 1985.
Levin, Jeffrey H., and Ursula K. Le Guin. “Bibliographic Checklist of the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin”. The Language of the Night, 1979, pp. 237-70.
Le Guin, Ursula K. City of Illusions. Ace Books, 1967.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Dancing at the Edge of the World. Grove Press, 1989.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays. Gollancz, 2018.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Lavinia. Harcourt, 2008.
Le Guin, Ursula K. No Time to Spare. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Planet of Exile. Ace Books, 1966.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Rocannon’s World. Ace Books, 1966.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Searoad. HarperCollins, 1991.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Tehanu. Atheneum, 1990.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Beginning Place. Harper and Row, 1980.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed. Avon, 1974.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Earthsea Trilogy. Penguin Books, 1983.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Farthest Shore. Atheneum, 1972.
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Golden Age”. The New Yorker.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night. Putnam, 1979.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. Scribner, 1971.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace Books, 1969.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Other Wind. Harcourt, 2001.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Telling. Harcourt, 2000.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Tombs of Atuan. Atheneum, 1971.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Wave in the Mind. Shambhala, 2004.
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Word for World is Forest”. Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, edited by Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1972.