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Biography of Ursula K. Le Guin
Name: Ursula K. Le Guin
Birth Date: October 21, 1929
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer, teacher
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) created fantastic worlds in which the author's strong-willed, feminist protagonists have increasingly taken center stage.An understanding of both anthropology and varied cultures informed the highly acclaimed science fiction writing of Ursula K. Le Guin. In such books as the Earthsea Trilogy, The Lathe of Heaven, and The Left Hand of Darkness, she created what Nancy Jesser in Feminist Writers called "an anthropology of the future, imagining whole cultural systems and conflicts." Eschewing the "pulp" aspects of most science-fiction--brawny male heroes, compliant women, and over-the-top technology as both cause and solution to the world's problems--Le Guin was known for skillfully telling a story containing many layers of meaning beneath its calm exterior. Her Earthsea novels have been cited by several reviewers as characteristic of her work; an essayist in Science Fiction Writers commented that, as it was "constrained neither by realistic …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…whose dreams alter reality--as well as her on-the-set production assistance. Le Guin's positive appraisal of the resulting film was a marked contrast to most authors' feelings about their work after a film crew gets through with it. The recipient of numerous awards, she continued to make her home in Oregon.In The Telling (2000), the author writes about a fundamentalist monoculture, apparently modeled after Maoist China, that tries to squash the traditional forms of learning. Further Reading Bittner, James, Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, UMI Research Press, 1984. Bleiler, E.F., editor, Science Fiction Writers, Scribner's , 1982.Cogell, Elizabeth Cummings, Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin, University of South Carolina Press, 1990.Feminist Writers, St. James Press, 1997.Greenburg, Martin H., and Joseph D. Olander, Ursula Le Guin, Taplinger, 1979.Slusser, George Edgar, The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin, Borgo Press, 1976.Spivack, Charlotte, Ursula Le Guin, Twayne, 1984.Science-Fiction Studies, March 1976.
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